INTERESTING TO FARMERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 140, 16 December 1911, Page 8

INTERESTING TO FARMERS.

>| Seeing a long-felt want by the farm'ing and general public of Taranaki, . ( the Canterbury Land and Finance Agency • .have decided to start a Horse Mart, and . have been fortunate in securing the serJ vices (as their manager) of Mr. F. C. i Bailey, youngest son of the late Rev. Canon Bailey, of*Hobart. Mr. Bailey I has been a well-known owner-trainer and gentleman rider throughout Australia, and also India, formerly racing Greystanes, Pirate, Protos, Quicklight, and other famous horses. T. A. Rumney, Esq., Stock Inspector, Queensland, Says Mr. Bailey is the best authority on blodd stock that he has known, and that his flat in such cases has decided more dlsputes than any southern man. Mr. ArI thur Kearney < (the "Scobie" of Tasmania), endorses Mr. George Watson's public statement, to the effect tlat "Mr. 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 Memo Sheep-breeder, the Hon. James Gib-

[.son, M.L.C., sa .y S) «r i lave known Mr . Bailey when he was manager of Sir , Richard Dry's Estate, and he was excepJ *™fl S° od sheep and cattle. WUh horses I have not seen his equal, hj» opinion on Wood stock being much sought after and respected. I have always found him a gentleman." George H. Marshall, Western representative of New Zealand Loan & Mercantile, QueensHand states, "Mr. Bailey's knowledge of ; anythmg connected with horses is\econdtonone." It is this firm's intentiom to mtroduce better classes of horses into Taranak., recognising that most people hke to have the ownership of first-class |«mnals. The firm are making harness, hunters and hacks a speciality*