HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 271, 22 December 1909, Page 3

HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY

The general committee of tne New Plymouth Horticultural Society met last night. The president, Mr. G. tisch, presided) and there were also present: Mesdamcs Morrison, McKellar, Doeknll, Grant, Paton, Misses B. Sinith\ Hempton, S. P. Smith, Messrs. A. Hooker E. W. Griffiths, J. Paton, E. Allen 3 Gibson, W. Messenger, P. Goodacre, and W. P. Nicoll (secretary). The secretary submitted an approxi mate balance-sheet in connection with the recent spring show. Receipts were: Door takings £24 18s, vegetable and cookery sale 17s 6d, entry fees £ls 6s 6d. Expenditure: Ambury Bros, (sheeting and ribbon) £2 7s lid, Baker and Co. (hire of crockery) £1 7 3 ed, advertising and printing £l9 2s, labor £4 17s, prize-money £3B Bs, luncheon tick-1 ets £l, hire of theatre £7, orchestra £2 2s.

The statement was adopted, subject to some accounts being initialled by the chairman of the committee.

In discussing a protest in the pot plants section, Mrs. Paton mentioned that the judges in the section had too much to do.—Mr. Paton said the same remark was applicable to the decorative seotion, where there should have been three.

It was decided to open a suggestion book. Suggestions! entered were: That the public be admitted to the theatre from the Devon Street entrance only; that a system of delivering exhibits to exhibitors after the show be adopted, so that none be removed until the show was over, and until the exhibitors had shown an order from the secretary to the doorkeeper; that tye whole of the home industries exhibits he wired in immediately the judging is completed, to prevent exchange of tickets and sampling of exhibits by the public; that at future shows a protest committee of three be appointed to deal during the show with all protests lodged. Consideration of a protest from Mrs. Allen in the pot plants section was deferred until next meeting, and the judge will be requested to attend. Mrs. Morrison brought forward a suggestion from the judges in the preserves section that jams, sauces and pickles should be shown in not smaller than halkpint and half-pound jars or bottles. At the show some of the exhibits, they said, were too small to give reasonable chance of tasting them, and the necks were in some cases too small to admit a spoon.