MOUNTED POLICE AT SHOWS.

Waikato Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8060, 19 November 1906, Page 2

MOUNTED POLICE AT SHOWS.

TO THE EDITOR. * Sir,—l trust a portion of your paper in one of your issues may with advantage be tie medium of offering to public acceptance, two or three observations on the uau=ual sight put before the gaze of the large number of spectators at the last Waikato show, that of mounted constabulary riding the bounds of the ring. Those of the committee of management who were the cause of their presence there, unquestionably magnified the importance of the object to be gained. It is perhaps possibly a benefit to nquest the presence of mounted troopers on a large race course, but in the sh w ring of an Agricultural and Pastoral Society they are quite out of place. Qf course the apparent necessity for their being introduced on to the reserve, is tie crush in to get a close s : ght of the woodohoppiDg contest. I think if that is the sole reason, it can be discontinued without detracting from the popularity of the exhibition, leaving the troopers to add importance to vioe regal movements. If any one has taken acute notioe of the New Government of late they will see the purpose is to mould their social policy on Russian lines. Their two watoh words are, drastic and stringent, no matter the and all the S.M»g ire taking up the cue. At the same time they are passing a multitude of Acts, that put the Laws into direot contact, individually, with nearly every household, at least in the country. The Oodlin Moth Aot is one of the most useless and venomous laws over passed, that will produce a state of mental illusion in the minds of those subject to it. Tastnauia, its home, is a grouud saturated with the bactieriae of bloody tyrany, and little good can oonie* in copyiug laws made in a country that not to long ago was looked upon as a hell upon earch. Taking these facta into consideration to all colonists lo 'king forward to the people enjoying a position of dignified independence in which their manhood, skill, and ability, will enjoy unhampered dpvel .pment, and without being subjected to either a poking up. or a squashing by any one holding the reins of power for the time being, as far as it lies in their power, the sports and gathering of the* people should be kept as free from police proceedings as it is possible to keep them, to prevent the constant friction of antagonism, occasioned by their presence in acknowledged official position every year. I would advise the committee of management of the Waikato A. and P. show to run some sheep wire round under the rail of their show ring boundary. There ia a danger to spectators from being insulted as was seen at the last show, and ' contestants must have a space clear from unnecessary inpedimenta in whioh they can disport them.elves. I am etc H. J. IIANKINS, le Arohn.