OTAGO WINTER SHOW

Otago Witness, Issue 4026, 12 May 1931, Page 29

OTAGO WINTER SHOW

The committee of the Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Society is pleased with the entries received for the factory cheese and butter, and has arranged with the' Government dairy graders, who are acting as judges, to have the cheese and butter staged on Thursday, May 28, to enable them to start judging on the following day. It. has come to the knowledge of the committee that in some sections the same exhibits have been shown year after year, and intending exhibitors’ attention is drawn to the following clause in the needlework section:—“Exhibits must be the entire work of the exhibitors, and any article exhibited at a previous Winter Show is not eligible to compete.” The same conditions apply in the soldiers’ classes, as one of the main objects of the inclusion of these exhibits in the society’s schedule is to encourage returned soldiers to continue working throughout the year. The committee is willing to accept any special article, not included in the schedule, for exhibition only, but no prizes will be awarded. A fair number of applications for space has been received, and the Space Committee has made its first allocation. It would greatly assist the society in planning out the various buildings if intending exhibitors would send in their applications for space, and also entries for competition, as early as possible. _A meeting of the Executive Committee Was held on Wednesday afternoon and was attended by Messrs James Begg (president) in the chair, H. Turner, E. C. Hazlett, W. O. APKellar, and George Black, I he Timaru A. and P. Society wrote forwarding a copy of a resolution passed by it in connection with the present prices of- tallow and the present excessive supply of whale oil.—After the matter had been fully discussed it was decided to take no action. The Royal Agricultural Society of New Zealand advised that its annual conference would be held in Wellington on June 24, and asked the committee to appoint two delegates to represent the society.— Messrs H. Turner and E. F. Duthie were appointed. A suggestion was received that the society should arrange to have a grass land competition and offer prizes with the object of stimulating the interest of farmers and others, as it was thought that benefits would arise from such a compe-tition.—-Members expressed their opinions and pointed out the difficulties of holding the competition, especially when the question of the different values of land were considered.—lt was decided to ask the fertilising companies * if they would be prepared to provide prizes and lay down some conditions. If that was done the society would appoint the judges and arrange to carry through the competition. It was decided to ask the Royal Agricultural Society, -which is revising its list of judges, to add the following names in the Clydesdale breeding section:—Messrs Alexander Bathgate (Outram), Archibald Wilson (Henley), John Sutherland (Otokia), Peter Dow (Outram). Alexander Bannatyne (Waikouaiti), W. ATCaw Allison (Clarksville), Robert Tisdale (Middlemarch). J. T. James (Middlemarch), and Alexander Brown (All Day Bay. Oamaru). Mr H. Turner was nominated for the position of president, and it was decided to recommend two past presidents as honorary life members at the society’s annual meeting. s , It was noted that the judges selected for the following sections had accepted:— Factory cheese and butter, honey, bread and scones, cakes and biscuits, grain and seeds, potatoes, school exhibits, cheese grading, fruit-packing, and wool-classing competitions. It was left to the executive to arrange for judges for other sections. The layout of the buildings was fully discussed, and it was decided to ask Messrs Dalgety and Co. for the use of one of thei r wool stores to enable the committee properly to display the home industries and other sections.—The secretary was instructed to write to the City Council to ask if it would allow a canvas passageway to be erected between the two buildings. The Prime Minister (Mr G. W. Forbes) and Mr A. J. Murdoch (Minister of Agriculture) advised that, if possible, they would be pleased to be present at the Winter Show. Mr Geoffrey Reid and Mr Stuart P. Cameron were elected members of the society. Intending exhibitors at the forthcoming Winter Show are reminded that entries close at the end of this week, and it would considerably assist the society in compiling its catalogue if entries were sent as early as possible. In addition to the liberal prize money offered in the various sections, the following special prizes will be competed for.— The Otago Harbour Board’s trophy for cheese grading, the Henley Co-op Dairy Company’s trophy for the judging competition, the Taieri and Peninsula Milk Company’s trophy for factory butter, the South Island Dairy Association’s trophy for cheese, the society’s gold medal to the manager gaining the highest number of points, the D.l.C.’s £3 3s for farmers’ butter, the New Zealand Fruitgrowers’ Federation £lO 10s for export fruit, Mr P. R. Sargood’s trophy for export pears, Messrs G. and T. Young’s Challenge Shield for export apples, and the Co-op. Fruitgrowers of Otago £2 2s for most points in plate apples, while in the home industries section Messrs Arthur Barnett and Co. offer a costume valued at £4 4s, Messrs A. J. Allen two half tons of household coal, the Westport Coal Co. one half ton of coal, Mr J. J. Purdie two half tons of coal, Mrs F. J. Conn a tea service for dark fruit cake, the Mosgiel Woollen Co. £2 10s for the most points in needlework, the D.S.A. two special prizes for best hand-made wool rug, Messrs Sutton and Sons a cup for roots, Mr A. Stewart £2 2s for potatoes, Dunedin Master Butchers’ Association £3 -3s for cattle, Mr James Begg £2 2s for champion calf exhibited by boys and Girls’ Agricultural Club, Messrs D. W. Johnson and Son’s Cup for hams and

bacon, Mrs Watson Shennan Memorial Cup for woolclassing, Messrs Ross and Glendining, Ltd., £2 2s in the wool section, and the Otago Provincial Fruitgrowers Council £5 for fruit packing.