Poverty Bay Standard. Published Every Evening. GISBORNE: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1882.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1187, 28 October 1882, Page 2

Poverty Bay Standard. Published Every Evening. GISBORNE: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1882.

We should like to make a few remarks with reference to the recent Poverty Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society’s Show, held on Wednesday last at the Society’s Grounds, Patutahi. In our account of the Show given in Thursday’s issue we stated that at the gate we were introduced to the genial and goodnatured Secretary of the Association, Mr. Matthew Hall, to whom we must record our thanks for affording us the most necessary and useful information throughout the day. We know perfectly well the arduous task allotted to a Secretary on an occasion of this description, and we are certain that no one could nave carried out his duties in a more satisfactory than Mr. Hall. This, so far as it goes, is perfectly true, but when it came to the point of ascertaining who was first, who was second, and who was third in any particular exhibit, it was simply a matter of impossibility to pick up the correct information. There was evidently a want of system in receiving the books from the various Judges, and this no doubt was a great source of annoyance and trouble to the Secietary, and also to the representatives of the Press who had constantly to keep running after Mr. Hall in order to obtain information. We are certainly of opinion that had the Secretary been accommodated with a tent and an efficient assistant then no errors would have occurred because books could have been handed in to the Secretary or his I assistant, and the reporters could have taken the prizes from the official books in question. The arrangements for obtaining the various prizes were of the very worst description, and we only hope that next year better facilities will not only be afforded the Judges and the Secretary but also the representatives of the Press. We call attention to the above because certain errors have appeared with reference to the different prizes which we trust will be avoided in the future if the Committee only take the suggestions which we have placed before our readers in general and the Committee in particular. It was only to-day that one of the Judges informed us that he was perfectly surprised that anything approaching a report of the Show had been got at all, seeing that the arrangements for judging and reporting were anything but good. We arc sure that we have only to : ask the Committee to look into this matter I la order to have It remedied.