AGRICULTURAL & PASTORAL ASSOCIATION.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2699, 1 December 1882, Page 3

AGRICULTURAL & PASTORAL ASSOCIATION.

The usual monthly meeting of the general committee of the above association was held this afternoon at two o'clock. Present —Mr P. Cunningham (in the chair), Messrs J. Walls, J. Mann, J. E. Parker, T. Bruce, John Deans, W. Boag, E. Sutherland, Hon. J. T. Peacock, and Mr Murphy (secretary). The following correspondence was read :

From several holders of booths, &c, at the late show, asking for some remission of the charges owing to losses sustained on account of the bad weather.

On the motion of Mr J. E. Parker, seconded by Mr Deans, it was resolved that the application could not be entertained. From Mr C. Stewart, offering £3O per annum for the right of depasturing sheep on the show grounds for the year ending 20th November, 1883. Eeferred to the ground committee with power to act. From Mr J. P. Jameson calling attention to the exhibition of New Zealand manufactures at the annual shows. He believed this department could bo made of nearly equal importance with the pastoral and agricultural branches, and suggested that a committee should bo appointed to take charge of this special department. Probably the Industrial Association would be willing to act in the matter. The committee should be appointed soon after the show of the current year, so that defects lately visible would be fresh in memory, and there would be time to promote greater interest amongst manufacturers and inventors in submitting their productions. Amongst other suggestions Mr Jameson thought it would be advisable to erect more extensive buildings for the New Zealand manufactures, and with this object a charge per foot for space might be made. With regard to the judges he suggested that each exhibitor should be allowed to nominate some one having a special knowledge of the exhibits in the particular department, se as to guide the Association.

On the suggestion of the chairman, it was decided to thank Mr Jameson for his letter, and to refer it for the consideration of the ground committee to report at next meeting. From Messrs Elm?ly and Curlett, stating that a first prize ticket was wrongly placed on Messrs Steele Bros/ dog-cart instead of on a dog-cart exhibited by themselves, to which the judges awarded first prize. The Secretary stated that he had seen Mr Gilmore, one. of the judges, who had stated that the prize had been awarded to Messrs Steele Bros. The letter was referred to the Marshall.

The said the next business was to decide as to who should receive the prize as the highest prize takers for cattle at the recent show, Mr Deans and Mr Menlove had 15 points each. Mr Boag thought the rule was to give the prize to the winner of the largest number of first prizes. Mr Parker said that was one of the rules at Oamaru, but it was not amongst the rules of the A. and P. Association, which apparently made no provision for such a case.

The Chairman thought that, in the absence of any rule on the subject, they could only declare a tie. It would be necessrry to amend the rules so as to provide for such cases in the future. ~ It was decided to declare the result a tic.

Messrs Wilkin, Boag, and Deans were appointed a committee to edit the " New Zealand Herd Book."

Accounts were passed for payment to the amount of .£1321 lis 9d.

Mr Deans, before the meeting adjourned, wished to refer to a remark that was made in one of the papers with reference to some of the cattle exhibited by himself, and also by Mr Menlove, at the recent show. It was stated that some of the animals appeared to be rather over age. If remarks like that were published in the reports, people would not care to send their animals to the show. He thought that both he and Mr Menlove were sufficiently well-known to make it unnecessary to answer such an imputation. The remark to which he alluded was made either in the "Times" or "Press."

The Chairman presumed that Mr Deans' object in referring to the matter was simply to give a public denial to the statement.

Mr Deans said that was so. This concluded the business, and the meeting adjourned