FIELD OR FISHER?

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 April 1910, Page 3

FIELD OR FISHER?

THK FLOWFIi SHOW CONTIiOVKISSY. INTKHVIKW WITH TflM SKCIIKTAKV. The secretary to the Levin llorticnltural Society (Mr Fry), (jiic.stione'J by a " Chrouicle " repruswutiit'ivL' this morning, said lie. was. surprise:! to find an anonymous attack made on the si.ck'ty in the way it bad been made. The visit of Mr Fisher, M.l'., in connection with the Show, wa , -; entirely without political signified ire. The executive simply asked him to open tho show b'.'rius!. , he had expressed a desire at the. time he oiiiciated at the Y.M.C'.A. rooms. to return to Leviiii. The committee tlmuyht, in that rn-<". it would be well to let him seo what this town and district could '!o in the way of a (lower show. Mr Myron Mrown, whose name wis mentioned in t!ie letter to the ■'Clirouicb'.'' bad never been a.<;l\-e:l to come. Mr Fry continued : and if ho did come along ht> would flu ,'.O siiiiph" .'is a viee-president nf the society.' As for Mr Fi-M. M.P.. it; w;v. mentioned at t';e meeting of the exei-uiive that Mr Field had lieeti hero so often that to :\ v k him to come ag-:iiu would be Ire':-p'i:--siii'j; upon his good nature. Th. , siiia'i'stion iha.t there W'i'-; ;tnv ];nliHcal motive in the aidion was unkind and unfair: nothing _ had liye.n furtlier from th" coinniit.tee's miurl than 'inv s 11;■ 11 thoii'dil. 11 P'-litics fluid not, he kept aw'iy from a flower show the outlook hr th" community would be troublous indeed.