The Daily News THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1903. NEW ZEALAND AT THE DAIRY SHOW.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 18, 22 January 1903, Page 2

The Daily News THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1903. NEW ZEALAND AT THE DAIRY SHOW.

Tbe London cirrespondnnt of the ew Zealand Herald says : - " I notice th <t it a bai quot of the New Zaal nd In dustrial Asßtciatiop, a certain Mr Finn • xorrssed deep regret that through the of New Zealand's representatives at Home oue butter had not be n repr. seated at the recent Isliugton Scow, whtre Victorian makers got the prize, and the advertisement. Now, I have never hesitated to criticise strongly any inatwicts of negligence-bs they! may hive seemed to me—on the part of "New Z aland's representative at Homn," in other words, the Agent-' General and his staff, . JBut really this statement of Mr Finn's is such a gross and wacton libel on Mr Reeves ann Mr Cameron that I feel bound toenfc r a vigorous protest. It is within my own knowledge that the question if New Zealand's representation at tbe October Dairy Show in London wap duly considered in Victoria-street so long ago as July, when the earlirst intimation was received, that for the first time there wou'd be a gpscial class for colonial butter. After a consultation between Mr R- eve?, and Mr Cameron, the Agmit-Genc-ral, cabled to the New Zealand Agricultural Department sugg s'ing i hit some butter should be at once made in New Zealand and smt to England for competition at the show, The New Zealand Agricultural Dop.rtmmt replied that the season being win'erat the Antipodes was unsui - able for butter-making. Theref re freshly-made New Zealand could not b) cent Home, and it woald have been absurd to send which bad bsen long ia s'orto compete with new season butter from o' her places, thus inviting F.rthis rea on nothing was done or could be successful y d<>ne, but cltarly there was no "d> gleet" as Mr Finn allegnd, So far from this being the case the mat'er was artfully consid< red by the caloni 1 au'horities on both eidis of the wor d and the d»c's : on not to exhibit wii! rendered inevitable by the circumstances, and mainly by the period of the yiar at which the London show was held. This must have been kn .\vn by all people in the c lony who we;e not utterly ignorant." This di* posts of another attempt to belittle the 'Sorts if the Agent-General and the Agricul ural Dipartment.