SOCIAL EVENT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 869, 16 July 1910, Page 8

SOCIAL EVENT.

tfOlj. EXHIBITORS AND -VISITORS.- ';■:.. In«the refreshment-room of the show buildings on Thursday night the Show :Committce.'entertained''a large' number of visitors and. exhibitors at a" smoke concert. Mr. A. W- Gillies, the chair- - man of directors of the-company, pre- :; Bided. There were a long toast list and '■a good programme of music' "< , : Mr. A.' W.. Gillies, the chairman' of the Show Committee, proposed the" toast of the exhibitors, without whom, : ,-■ lie said,' there could be no show, •;'and .-'-, to whom tkestlianks of the Show Com- '. pany were duo.for the way iii which tho exhibitors had come forward. Some of. the manufacturing firm's had cpmfcihed to reduce the number of shews at. -.- -which they exhibited, With the object • «f cutting out certain, shows, and thus saving expense, hut.the speaker wished 'to point out that for every 300 -Tara- .'. naki farmers who could afford to go to : iPalmerston North.,to see the machin- ; ery there were 3000 who could not af-' • ford-to gov ' - ,i. Mr. E. W. Robertson, of Messrs. J,. ©. M'Ewan and- Co.',- who responded on, ■ tehalf of the exhibitors, said that from . their point of view everything was_ as admirably arranged .as it was possible : for it to be, and the secretary had fiven the. oxhibitors every assistance, he burning question:from the exliibi- ' tors' point, of' view was, Could they : stand the expense? There was,no question of Hawera's - suitability as the town wherein to hold a big dairy/show. (It had been noticeable at the Palmers- -' Iton North show this year that Tara- ; , maki people were not present; in any /great extent. Tho South Taranaki. had, ; (proved that they had a population to laraw upon, and also that thoy could {put on an excellent winter show.. "Her Majesty the Cow" . was pro-. [posed by .Mr. J. E. Corrigan, who said, .'■ an the course, of his remarks, that - seventeen years ago land was ' worth ': isbout £12, an acre, and now, owing to . majesty", the cow it was worth up %a £C 0 an" acre.. The dairy herds, ho continued, would have to be looked after far better than in the past. Through the high.price,of land the farmers .would have, to breed and select '•; the very best dairy, cows they 'could get. It behoved tho men on the land to advance tho value of their herds, ' and if they did, probably, very soon theSand would be selling at £75 to £St) an acre. -..'■" The response was allotted to Mr. ■D. Hughes, junior, who styled the cows as the Royal family, and said that'he among others in Taranaki ought to lift his hat to 1 , them. His father had .. 'been the first-man to milk a cow between New 'Plymouth and Patea. Tara- .' naki .cows at that time were as \vild (as hares, and the breaking in for milking was a much more difficult matter than it was to-day. In Taranaki /the •holdings'wero getting smaller and the . rents larger, and more scientific and intensive farming must bo resorted to.. He was pleased the'' Government - was trying to .improve "the herds, of tho country by purchasing reliable animals! Mr. A. M'Farlane, 1 the chairman of -the National Dairy Association, proposed the toast of the factory managers'. He said that a great deal of the credit for the. fine display of dairy produce at the show was due to the makers, whom ■factory directors should assist in every ■ way they could. ,It was the energy aiid the ability of the makers-'' whicii ( ' were going to bring New Zealand butter - : and cheese to . the very front. The .'makers, had done a splendid work for 'New Zealand in making the produce what it was. The champion butter-maker' (Mr. J. O'Dea, Pihama), in the course of his response, said that the makers had the .'".- directors and the suppliers to thank for a great deal. It was not all beer and skittles being, a" factory mauagor, and .'at times life would not .bo worth living were it not for the directors. Ho complimented the Show Committee on the manner in which, the dairy produce had . heon staged. The arrangements in that respect were as satisfactory as any- ' where- in New Zealand. (Hear, hear.) He took to himself no credit for winning the butter prizes, but. attributed the •whole of the success to pasteurisation. Any manager making butter from un- • pasteurised cream was very lniicli' Behind the times. The cow was the.mainstay of Taranaki, but tho iarmers would have to go in for a better class of cow and also adopt testing. If they went in for such improved methods, they could double their output. Not. five per cent, of the farmers knew what their cows wero yielding. With the industry conducted on 'proper lines, instead of the land being at £60 an acre, > it would be £100, and the people would - be able to afford the' price.

Mr. C. Farley, the manager of Iho Kaponga factory, also responded. The- toast of the Winter Show Com-, pany was proposed by Mr. It. J. Earnes, and replied to by Mr. A. W. Gillies, the chairman of the South Taramaki Winter Show Company. The latter paid tributes to the manner in which the directors had worked together, and to the energy with which the secretary' had. laboured in the interests of the show. The Mayor of Hawera, Mr. E. L. Barton, when proposing "The National Dairy Association," said that credit was 'duo to thaurtircctors of the company, but it wasr\a g rcat mistake that nothing had been said of the great part which the Hawera Chamber of. ConiSnerce had taken in the matter of cremating the fixture. "The chamber had lone much before' the directors came ferto existence., Mr. J. Goodwin proposed the toast of the secretary (Mr. A. M. Conroy), whose work as an official ho praised. Mr. Conroy replied.