The Flower Show

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 76, 6 December 1884, Page 2

The Flower Show

We regret that ono or two errors crept into our report of the exhibition, but in justice to ourselves wc must explain that the reason was entirely owing to the fact ; of our reporter (who is also a member of the committee) being absolutely refused permission to be present during the time the judges were making the awards, or when tbe exhibits were being placed in the hall. This most unusual conduct on the part of certain other members of the committee is altogether unaccountable, besides being unprecedented, and can only be laid to the crass ignorance of | certain self-constituted auth6ri'ies. Not j onlv was our reporter excluded, but one of the Presidents of the Society was positively refused admission, and it was only after he had demanded that certain exhibits over which he had control should returned to him, that he might remove them altogether and withdraw them from exhibition, that the parties came to their senses and allowed him access to them. The ignorance which would attempt to control the entrance or exit of an officer who is ex officio a member of all commit tees is simply unpardonable. Another exhibitor complained of being grossly insulted by some ot the members of the committee, and although he is a large exhibitor, and, with all tho members of his family, finds a pleasure in tho cultivation of plants aud flowers for the plea sure of others who have not the same means, he declares his intention of avoiding coming into collision again with the Feilding Horticultural Committee as at present constituted. Last year seyera! large exhibitors were so treated that they failed to forward auythmc for this show. The committee should remember that they are elected by the public, and that the show is supported by public money. They are therefore the servants of the public, and it is their manifest duty, and should be their pleasure, to treat every member thereof with courtesy and civility, otherwise the society is doomed. Our remarks do not apply in any way to the secretary, Mr Goodbehebe, who, as he always does, did his duty with diligence and courtesy.