NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 212, 21 May 1915, Page 8

NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW.

On the suggestion of and by arrangement with Professor Kirk, of the Department ojf Agriculture the Committee has decided to provide space in th e Produce Hall for fruitgrading and packing demonstrations, also competitions. The competitions will be held on the 2nd and '3rd days. They will be open to all comers with first and second prize s of £ll/ and 10/6. The Department’s packers will act as judges and prize winners on the first day will not be eligible to compete on th e second day. This is quite a new departure but it is in the right direction, tending as it should towards the improvement of the grading and packing of fruit. This industry is assuming such proportions now that th e committee is using every endeavour to keep pace with the requirements of growers. There i s no doubt that th e magnificent displays of apples staged at the National Dairy Show are not excelled or even approached in the Dominion. It is hoped that a very valuable championship trophy will prove additional incentive to the gjrowers. The list of classes provided i s a very lengthy one and good prized money awaits the successful competiitor. The competitions beforementiom ed are not in the schedule, but all information may be obtained from the secretary, Mr W. T. Penny, Box 85, Palmerston North.

A story is going the rounds in the Mackenzie County concerning a lad, about 18 years of age, who is evidently a budding financier. The boy was engaged as fleece-picker at the award rate of 27/6 per week and found, on a job which comprised the cutting out of three shearing-sheds. All w r ent well till the second shed was reached, when the boy demanded £$ and found, and refused to work for less. The runholder protested, but his alternative was feeding the shearing gang and having his shed held up or paying the wages demanded, for the shearers could not work without a fleece-picker. Sooner than be put to this inconvenience and expense, he paid the boy the wages he demaded. Eendered bold by his success, wen the third shed was reached (that of a small farmer), the b.oy demanded £3 a week with his board. The farmer, aghast at the lad’s impudence, protested, but in vain, for he could not get another another fleece-picker, and he was forced to pay the extortionate wage demanded.

A grand jury at New Brunswick (New Jersey) has returned indictment charging witjh murder the 26 sheriff’s deputies who were arrested recently in connection with the death of a striker at Roosveelt, New Jersey, during an encounter between the sheriffs and th e strikers.