SMOKE SOCIAL

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 174, 27 February 1914, Page 1

SMOKE SOCIAL

Entertaining Show Visitors. There were about seventy present Jat the smoke social held in the Premier hall, Pukekohe, on Friday evening for the purpose of enteitaining judges and exhibitors. -Hie President of the Society, Mr J. Wylio, occupied the chair and proposed the loyal toast. The Mayor of Pukelohe, Mr Lawrie, proposed the Government. Mr B. H. Andrew sang " After you with the Soap, dear," which elicited loud applause. Mr T. M.Thompson, of Waiuku, proposed Tire Judges. Mr W. Gadsby replied saying that what he had seen oI the show was excellent and some of the sheep here were of the very best. In the distiict there was some excellent stock and there was no reason why Pukekohe should not have the best show in the province. (Applause.) He appealed to everybody to enter largely at the shows ; it was entering at shows that had made him. There was plenty of room at the top for all young men in the stock world. Mr Standen, of Ohaupo, said lie was very favourably impressed with the show. He spoke very highly of the Ayrshires and Jerseys and ho was also agreeably surprised at the quality of the grade stock. He thought that Pukekohe district had a great future before it. Master Kandolf Ward was enthusiastically encored for his singing. Mr Griinuiond, of Waiuku, also hit the fancy of the audience with his singing and had to respond to an encore. " The Exhibitors" were proposed by the senior vice president, Mr L). R. Hamilton, who sail that the exhibitors after all represented the most important part of tho show. This show had become one of the leading shows in the Auckland province and for that added reason he called upon them to charge their glasses to the brim. The toast was enthusiastically honoured. Mr A. E. Wilkinson, who claimed to be a consistent exhibitor, said this year ho and his brother had shown in neaily every class on the ground. They had had a lot of beatings but that was because the other fellows' stock had got so much better. He quoted figures from his own herd to demonstrate how it pays to buy high-priced cattle. With regard to the grade Jersey cattle he believed the judge would fay that tbe cows here were as good as they had in Taranaki. The show had improved and he emphasised that "braed would te.ll" and prade stock would nut give such gocd results ss pedigree stuff. The speaker concluded by thanking the Society for the liberal way in which they had treated exhibitors. (Applause). Mr Standon said he had become an exhibitor of sheep here because of the persistency of the secretary. He urged those who could r.ot get purebred cattle to get purebred bulla of a good dairy strain and then they would soon work up their herds lo practically a purebred standard. Ihe Kev. Father Skinner, who acknowledged himself as an unsuccessful exhibitor, made a very happy speech, full of good nature. Mr Fullerton also responded. Mr A. Young tang and was given an undeniable recall.

Mr R. J. Eames proposed ths Franklin A. and F. Society. He refeired to the prcgiessive work that had beeu do e ard quotfd figures to indicate how the Society was expanding. Mi Wylie, in replying, said they should always support the Society in every possible way. "Don t keep the stock at home," he said, "bring them out, bliow them! (Hear, hear). The Society had tiied to do its best. The best associations of hia life had been found on the rhowgrounds. He was sorry to leave the old showerounds, but to expand they must have space, and he was still satisfied that the policy of the last two years was justified, l'hey should increase the prize money for cattle as they had done in horses —hear, hear —lor the cattle were

the m?insprirg of their existe..ce. In conclusion, the speaker trud that if he had done anything to further the interests (f the Society the acknowledgment they had given him thit evening had more than repaid him. (Applause). Mr W. Jones' song "Lcng the King was loudly applauded and encored.

The president, Mr Wjlie, proposed "Our Worthy Secretary,'' and spoke in the terms of warmest praise of Mr Baxter and l.ud cheeis greeted the toas'. There were further cheers wnen Mr Baxter iose to make his reply, which was in excellent taste, "lfe s a Jolly Good Fellow'' was once more eagerly sung. Cheers for Mrs Baxter were called for, and Mr Gadsby rose to say that he only wi hed that Mr Baxter wa9 secretary of the Hamilton Show. "Keep the ball of progress rollinr, and keep Mr Baxter here'' was the text of Mr Gadsby's remarks. The president proposed the toast if the Hunt Club, and spoke of his interest in the jumping of horses which gave pleasure to thousands of people every year.

Mr E. Allen Ber.t and Mr Ben Myers suitably responded. Rev. Father Skinn:r recite 1 "Not Understood" in splendid f:sh)'on. In response, Father Skinner recited "A Hindoo's Paradise, which fetched the house. In conclusion, the president thanked the hall proprietary for having let the Society have the hall that evening. A successful evenirg terminated bv the singing of Auld Lang Syne.