OPENING DAY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12765, 21 June 1911, Page 8

OPENING DAY

A SPLENDID SHOW.

: (By Telegraph.) (Special to "Chronicle." PALMERSTON N., June 20

The eighth National.'Dairy; Show of the Manawatu A. and P. Association opened to-day and was favoured with beautiful. weather conditions. It is in many respects superior to its predecessors, and in all other respects their .equal. The fine new exhibition hall with its splendid floor space.has added greatly to the convenience and effectiveness of The display, and the combined halls are-now-over a sixth of a mile in length. As usual, there is a magnificent exhibit of butter and cheese which almost monopolises the new hall, and is superior; in every way to the previous year's. Again tile milking machines are one of the notable features in the remarkable conglomeration of machines, which is this yeat also distinguished by the presence of a. Dried Milk plant from Nathan's fcictory, the product from which is coming again into active demand. .. ••Speaking,oh the quality of the butter exhibits in the factory classes, Mr. Cuddie, Dairy Commissioner, said the number of- entries in the classes for factory but her wera more humorous than usual. In fact; it was seldom one saw so many entries at any of the, winter) shows. : With regard to the • quality of the exhibits, he said they were very good. Taken all round, .there had never been a better show of creamery butter to judge. ~ Tliere were somo of the exhibits more or less defective, but tho number was small in comparison. The butter, as usual, bac\ been subjected to severe tests for keeping qualities, which after all is the main feature in butter. *

Mr. Singleton r,referred to fclie \6roarkablo uniformity in the cheese exhibitvS,. which was attested hy the fact that the prizes < were spread over a large number of h factories.

• There-as'"a magnificent collection of apples, proving ;New Zealand's suitability for/ such an important and lucrative field of enterprise. Tho champion C'la^s, open fo the whole Dominion, drew'six competitors, representing the Canterbury^ Nelson, Manawatu and Hawke's Bay districts. James Gushing, "of Clive, Bawke's Bay, was first, and D. Fry, of Nelson, second. In the champion class,; open also to fruitgrowers' associations, B* Gushing, also of Clive,. Hawke's Bay, was first: Palmerstqn growers wer© successful in many of the individual-classes, Shatter and Sons, C.H. Pickering, aiid F. Qutram securing firsts, while the visiting" men, -notably 3.: MeCullcich, .of Havelock N, Hawke's .Bay, secured the remainder. The quality of ■ the fruit showed that Hawke's Bay has'a fnturo for it in apple culture, with a serious rival in Pahnerston. "Wanganui was not represented this year. The public school exhibits include tome fine work, honours in the garden products "falling; to the Cheltenham School. In- the farmers' vseed and grain classes,~"CJianiberlain. and Son, of Masfcerton, are the principal prize takers;' while in farm products J. Balsillie is the leading winner. Again Wanganui exhibitors are conspicuous by their i'lbsenc/;. ' , His Exct'ljency the , Governor ' pc-r----formed. the ceremony, and in the course of his remarks referred to the importance of agricultural shous to the dairy industry. Howe/or, a warning note was sounded in regard to tho number of agricultural shows in i ho Dominion. There was a limit, l.e.&t.itod, to tho number that could te established in a country, *and -if they wont beyond that limit, instead of stimulating' the industries, they would have an. enervating effect. 'i'he' Hon. T. Mackenzie, in " the conrso of his address, made special reference to' the warnings, uttered by Mr. Harold Beauehnmp," chairman of directors *of the. Bank of New Zealand, last week. ,He said that Mr. Beauchamp had«-based his calculations P'Oiely on 'the relation of the exports to tho imports of tho Dominion, and in so far as those figures wero concerned he was justified in bis remarks; but fee had quite failed to take note of the internal wealth of New' Zealand, a consideration, of which would have placed matters in a very different light. The Minister considered trade prospects were very bright. Tlie dairying industry was booming along.-, Wool was satisfactory, and the •future of the meat industry ' was bright because ot the near approach of the, opening of the closed doors of continental' itiarkfttsv ■..,■'■■■ '.'.'■' ' ~ ' . .