CENTRAL WAIKATO AGRICULTURA L SHOW.
We were compelled in our last issue to leave our report of the show an 1 dinner uncompleted. The first question that colls for nolico ut our liantls is the
MAORI EXHIBITS. As our readers are probably aware, the Gorernment gave £o<> to br distributed nmoiinst the natives in prizes for eaMle, hor^s, nn'l native productions. We were extremely grahried to fin-1 such a largo number of exhibits, and still more nt the nu'nbi-r of ppr> Ie who cime with them to parti eijwte in the iunu><piii»'iit. t'a^ n. show of the sort always excites in every auncultunil mil pastoral district. The luirses and cattlo sbown were tk'culedly of a very inferior flescnption, they almost, wit'init exception, evidenced an u'tcr van* of br»ed It, hns bvn (imJ with a great, deal of trut'O said thattiie nHt.,vi j s' 'inn i« .-.f jrinJually losing their cunning, and bolh the men an 1 nomcH. the itidustry nccet cary to produce the articles t! a( f\id< ntrd the Maori rt.cf as naturally intelligent. We wer.> cxivi 1 linjly plHase.l to see the mats, calabashes and ilih innumerable articles of Maori production that were brouiiht in, principally from t he territory ot" his dusky ninety. One of the curiosities wns a hat made, as we were informed, by the wilY, or olio of the »ive§, of Te Kooti, the murderer.
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Waikato Times, Volume V, Issue 285, 10 March 1874, Page 2
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