GORE A. AND P. ASSOCIATION.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 6, Issue 294, 2 October 1883, Page 2

GORE A. AND P. ASSOCIATION.

The annual meeting of this association was held on Saturday last in Messrs Green and Souness' rooms. There was a fair attendance, and Mr W. A. Donald was voted to the chair.

Mr Tuson, the secretary, read a financial report, showing that the asspciation. had nearly £70 in hand—a position members considered eminently satisfactory.

Before the ordinary business .of the meeting was proceeded with,

Mr I. S. Simson wished to know by whose authority the -annual horse parade was advertised to take place in .Messrs Green and Souness' horse bazaar. Such parades were usually held in the main street of a town or in a show ground, and it was not fair either to the other auctioneers in the town or to the general public that a departure: from recognised custom should be made on thia occassion.

j The chairman did not know by whose authority the plaoe was advertised. For all that, he considered it the best that could be procured, especially if the day .should turn out wet. ' . ! ' ; Mr Simson : But it is against me as an auctioneer. * The chairman : Yes, but it is greatly in favor of the owners of horses, all of whom would prefer that their animals should be under cover. As to the parade, a'few members of the committee met, and, afraid that the affair would bypassed over,, agreed that the advertisement should be put in. jf r Simson : For holding the parade in the baisaar? . - - .' The chairman : No, but others had thought it desirable that the Jparade should be held there, and no doubt when Mr Simson erected a horse bazaar huf (claims would receive aV tention. Mr Green failed to see that they had met there to air Mr Simson's grievances ; and Mr Canning had^much pleasure in .moving the adoption of the report Mr Tuson had read. He thought they might well congratulate themstlves en the satisfactory 'position the association occupied. Mr Bruce seconded the motion, whiph was ; •arried unanimously. '' ''\ The election of office-bearers was then proceeded with, and resulted as follows :—President, Mr G. P. Austing, vice Mrß. M. Robert.. I son. who resigned before his departure fbr I England ; Vice-president, MrJßobert Hamilton; treasurer, . Mr Green; secretary, Mr Tuson ; committee, ..Messrs ;Denald, Green; Simson, A. Fleming, Waddell, A.' Cruickshanks, A. Watt, W. A. Ladbrook, J. Mac-' Gibbon,: D. Lamb* J». Chisholm,! L. Coutts,:N.. S. Kingdon, H. McLean, and F. S. Canning.

Mr Simson wpnld like to sayj a few words again with reference to thejborae parade. He was sorry to- see, so a iew settler* present, and evidently they, were dissatisfied' with some* thing. " To test! the feeling of the meeting he would move that^the horse parade be held in the main street er the show ground as usual,

Mr Canning would second; the; motion if Mr Simson would agree to the; parade being held in Mr Green's or some other, paddock, He did not believe in the main street being utilised : it was repulsive to man's finer feelings*

Mr J. MacGibbon urged that the parade be left as advertised, and believed that exhibitors would be very glad, to avail themselves of the accommodation offered by Messrs Green and Souness, especially if the day was boisterous.

Mr Canning held that there wa* "not sufficient room in the bazaar for parading horses.

Mr Green said that it was at his suggestion I that the parade waa'advertised to take place [ in the bazaar, but he had not been actuated i by those mean, paltry motives that Mr .Sim-: ! son had been good.eneugh to insinuate. Last year he hadjgiven a goed deal of his time and mouey to the association, and he believed its ; ! members would uot consider him actuated by: motives of self. Having a horse bazaar just built, he »u :g -sto'd to Mr Tuson that the parade should be held there and it was forthwith adrcrtised. He was quite of Mr Canning's opinion that it was undesirable to hold the parade in the main street,: but there was nothing to prevent the horses, parading that street before their pedigrees Were read. He did not believe that a single settler had stopped away from that meeting from reasons suggested by Mr Simson ; but were it nbt that it would look contemptible he would withdraw his offer of the bazaar altogether After some remarks from Mr Canning, Mr Simson declined to amend his motion in {ihe direction indicated by Mr Canning, \ who thereupon refused to second it, No one else being prepared to second ;the motion, it lapsed. On the motion of Messrs Grfeen and JrJamU?., ton, it was agreed tbat the show should be held on Tuesday, the 4th December. On the motion of Mr Douglas the 'secretary : was authorised to call a meeting of the committee, at an early date, to arrange preliminaries for the show. The meeting then adjourned.