HEAVY HINTS.

Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 354, 7 September 1878, Page 2

HEA VY HINTS.

{To the Editor of the Patea Mail.) Sir',—-Can you inform me what has become of the Patea Agricultural and Pastdhil Society ■ ploughing match tin’s year, as I hope the boys with their wheeled ploughs have not taken offence at getting put through by a bare swing - the last two years, and given it up in dispair. If so, it is no use of our afternoon farmers of New Zealand thinking they can do with boys and inferior men at a cheap rate, and do away with practical men that expect wages according to their capabilities, for experienced men will always’ be in demand. With all the improvements in machinery men are in more demand now in the old country than they were thirty years ago, so much so, that there are very few to spare for this colony. But perhaps its owing to the Society requiring all their funds lor the purchase of the plate they are proposing to give as prizes at the next show that the plouging branch is laid aside. However, lam glad to see they are stirring themselves to make the forthcoming show a success, although I should say it would take a good looking chap to draw much plate out of a Patea show-yard, unless a silver tea spoon is counted plate. However, that same would be an improvement on the bronze medal of former years —T say a good looking chap because I am aware that it is not the animal that take it in most cases in Patea. Happening to be there two years ago, I saw the Fellow of Oxford cast aside, a bull with pedigree and quality and a champion in Wanganui same year—while two with neither pedigree nor quality were made prize animals, and many similar I could mention, which shows want of judgment in the judges they select—or that kissing goes by favor, only I would take up too much of your space to do so. However, the man that takes plate from the Patea show-ground 1 am eonlident must be one of high blood.—l am, &c., A CAST MET ML MEDAL. o