RIVAL RAM FAIRS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 278, 20 August 1919, Page 10

RIVAL RAM FAIRS

.'By- 1 Telegraph—Special Correspondent,' Palmerston North, August; ID. 'At a meeting of tho Manawatu Agricultural! and Pastoral Association to-day, a Jetter whs read from tho Feilding A. and P. Association to tho effect that that'"body intended holding a ram fair nt Feilding tin's year. Members stated that this was a distinct breach of the »greoment corns to between the Live Stock Auctioneers' Association and tho two A. BHd_.P. Associations to hold fairs altercirtelyat'Pabierstbn North and Feilding, and correspondence bearing on the. questidii: was read. Strong exception wa3 taken. to,.the action of tho Feilding Society.

After a lengthy discission the followint' resolution wns carried:—"That the association much regrets the action taken by the Fcildjng A. and P'. Association in breaking 'the agreement entered into •by the'live.stock auctioneers, the Mana,wdtu A. and ]?. Association, and tlio '.Fending A. and P. Association to hcCtl. alternately a ram fair, calls the combined representatives together to discuss thollis-' solution of the agreement entered into, also that Folding, having adopted the ttamo of 'West Coast ram fair/ this ftssociation desires to intimate that that name had always belonged hereto, and that the. latter proposes adhering to the M.me. •