INTERESTING TO FARMERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 145, 15 December 1911, Page 8

INTERESTING TO FARMERS.

I Seeing a long-felt want by the farmj ing and general public of Taranaki, the Canterbury Land and Finance Agency ! have decided to start a Horse Mart, and j have been fortunate in securing the services (as their manager) of Mr. F. C. Bailee, youngest son of the late Rev. Canon Bailey, of Hobart. Mr. Bailey has been a well-known owner-trainer and gentleman rider throughout Australia, and also India, formerly racing Grcystanes, Pirate, Protos, Quicklight, and other famous horses. T. A. Rumney, Esq., Stock Inspector, Queensland, says Mr. Bailey is the best authority on blood stock that he has known, and that his fiat in such cases has decided more disputes than any southern man. Mr. Arthur Kearney (the "Scobie" of Tasmania), endorses Mr. George Watson's public statement, to the effect that "Mr. j Bailey had the best seat and hands that he had seen in Australia and out of it," and also a thorough good judge of blood stock, and has been a prominent judge in show rings. The leading Merino Sheep-breeder, the Hon. James Gibson, M.L.C., says, "I have known Mr. Bailey wlien lie was manager of Sir Richard Dry's Estate, and he was exceptionally good amongst sheep and cattle. With horses T have not seen his equal, his opinion on blood stock being much sought after and respected. I have al--1 ways found him a gentleman," George H. Marshall, Western representative of New Zealand Loan & Mercantile, Queensland, states, "Mr. Bailey's knowledge of anything connected with horses is second to none." It is this firm's intentioH to introduce better classes of horses into Taranaki, recognising that most people like to have the ownership of first-class animals. The firm are making harness, hunters and hacks a speciality,*