NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2111, 20 June 1907, Page 3

NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW.

Press Association. PALMERSTON, Tuesday. The Manawatu Show opened under favorable conditions, with .fine weather and a large attendance. The Agricultural Department’s exhibits were a decided acquisition, and greatly admired. Tho fanners’ machinery exhibits were an improvement on last year. The Royal Horticultural Society medal was won by S. J. Gibbons, with a collection of apples. Tho society’s medal for the best collection of vegetables was won by Stack Bros. Cheese prizes : Three cases cream Cheddar, Wailcomaiti 94, Edendale 935, South Canterbury 93; 3 cases white, Taratalii 945, Waikouaiti 935, Dalefield 93; 2 factory cheese, Taratalii 935, Edendale 925, Dalefield and Belvedere tied 92; medium size factory, Taratalii 935, Belvedere 925, -Dalefield, Imperial, and Edendale 91$; 2-loaf cheese, Edendale 935, Taratalii 93, Belvedere 925. Mr. J. M. Foreman presided at the annual meeting of the National Dairy Association. It was shown that the turnover for the year had been of the value of £56,000, with £216 profit. In liis address the chairman said the Executive held the opinion that the action of the recentlyformed Dairy Employees’. Industrial Union would result in an injury to tho factory industry. A resolution was passed/urging upon the men the advisability of again putting Mr. Kirk’s collection, known as the Government _ Agricultural - Museum, again on exhibit. It was resolved to ask the Government to appoint a dairy expert to examine and ; report upon the state of butter and cheese on_arrival in England; also, a resolution asking the Government to appoint an inspector of milk supplies to factories.

PALMERSTON, last night. The attendance at the National Dairv Show to-day was exceptionally large, and the keenest interest was manifested in the whole of the exhibits, but particularly in dairying machinery, butter, and cheese. To-day the fat sheep and poultry were judged. The latter were confined to utility classes. The entries were large, and competition keen. So.far. Ay. A. Sowman, G. R. Hutchinson, and A. H. Holland are the principal prize-takers. G. R. Hutchinson’s buff Orpington cockerel was adjudged the best bird in the show. Judging is barely finished. In the sheep classes, which are of exceptional quality, C. F. Keeblo, Palmerston,.is the principal prizataker.

The Hon. R. McNab addressed a large gathering at the Dairy Conference on the work being done by the Department of Agriculture in connection with dairying matters. He intimated that the Cabinet had entrusted him with the whole matter of ftnilk inspection a.ll over the colony but that in view of the fact that the whole community would reap the benefit, no special tax would be levied, but the cost, estimated at £52,000 a year, would be borne by the Consolidated Fund. He also stated that it had been decided to send experts Home to 'watch over New Zealand produce. The winter show attendance was large On both days and evening. The Hon. It. McNab arrived at noon to open the show, and subsequently received a deputation from the butter-makers and flax-millers on matters of interest to their respective industries. One matter mentioned was the shortage of white pine for the manufacture of butter-boxes. The deputation urged . that the Government reserves containing white pine should be kept for that purpose. The Minister replied that the question for the future would be the planting of suitable trees for box-making. _ In reply to the flaxmillers, the Minister said that the department had no desire to impose conditions which would interfere with the industry. A conference of graders would bo held in Wellington (Turing the month, when the matters mentioned would be brought up, andHtlie-result announced early' in July. The Hoii. Mr. ‘McNab, in tbe course of his address to the Dairy Conference to-day, announced the intention- of tljc Government to appoint inspectors of dairy produce in England, and that the Government had .been promised £IOOO by a gentleman, interested in agriculture, towards the cost of the nucleus of a dairy herd. It was the intention of the Government. to purchase tho beginnings of such a herd from the best milking strains obtainable in the world.