THE NEW ZEALAND EXHIBITION.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 409, 9 October 1889, Page 5

THE NEW ZEALAND EXHIBITION.

The following letter has been sent to the President, together with a draft for iivo guineas, as " The Irish Timea' " special prize for butter manufactured by fema l ® labour :—: — Northern Club, Auckland, September 6, ISB9. To the President of the New Zealand Exhibition, Dunedin. Dear Sib,— Will you do me the honour of accepting the enclosed draft to be devoted as a special piize for butter made by female labour, and competed for at the forthcoming Exhibition. It had been my intention to have offered this premium for hand-made butter exclusively, but this on reflection would hardly meet the object in view. For the benefit of the colony, the aim must be to produce butter on a large scale, and more important still, at uniform grade ; thus your energies should be directed towards the supply of the article in quantities of considerable bulk and equality. I certainly should have wished the prize to have been competed for by the female relatives or even employees of bona-fide farmers who have no interest in any factory ; but this I will leave to your Committee, being perfectly satisfied with whatever decision they in their better judgment may arrive at whether they admit factory produce or not. It ia essential that this industry should be most carefully fostered, nourished, and watched over, as I feel quite convinced that New Zealand butter will, ore long, be eagerly looked for in the Home markets, and by proper supervision, cleanliness, and above all, due attention to packing for expoit, it must ultimately com" mand a very fair and remunerative figure. Unity of action, and a determination to gain the topmost rung of the ladder, ought to be the aim and object of not only all engaged in agricultural pursuits in this Southern* Britain"but likewise of every producer of material that necessarily tends to build up the fabrics for the world's consumption and enjoyment. Your Exhibition is the first really genuine and great step in this direction. Its success is already assured. That the ultimate result will prove of vital importance to this younger daughter of the British Empire, is the earnest hope and desire of one who is the sincere friend and well-wisher of New Zealand.— Believe me, yours rery faithfully, David Taylor Arnott.

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