STACK BUILDING COMPETITION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10015, 11 April 1910, Page 5

STACK BUILDING COMPETITION.

A SUGGESTION.

During the meeting of the Masterton A. and P. Association on Saturday afternoon, Mr J. McGregor senr. waited on the committee in reference to the stack building competition in connection with theMasterton Show. Mr McGregor said that although he i was not a member of the committee he took a keen interest in the welfare of the Association. It was rumoured that the Association were contemplating discontinuing the stack building competition, and he would be very sorry for such to be the case, but the competition carried on under the present conditions was not worth a brass farthing to the district. There was not one thing that produced so much waste in the Wairarapa as bad stacking. He was present to put forth a suggestion to the Association whereby good stacking may be learned by a large number of farmer?, and in the hope that bad stacking would become a thing of the past.' His idea was to employ a professional stacker to teach others in the following manner:—-All those who wished to learn to stack, to pay a fee of aay lfls and in the early part of the season the pupils would be required to attend the exhibition building of an ideal stack in a centre, Hay the Upper Plain, for instance, where they could ask questions and receive replies. The professional stacker would then be required to attend at various places,' • and "crow" for one stack for each of the pupils. , If such a suggestion was acted upon Mr McGregor said he would give a first prize of £3 and £2 as a second prize for students, the stack which the teacher had assisted in building, not to be enterel for competition. Continuing, Mr McGregor said the only way to learn to stack was for one to actully do the work with his own hands. A person would not learn by simply watching others, and he ! was confident that if there were more competent stackers in the district, it would save pounds and pounds in a year. At the meeting's request. Mr McGregor remained in the room while the matter was being discussed. The chairman said Mr McGregor's suggestion was an admirable one, and there was no doubt but that such a scheme would be exceedingly beneficial to the district. Other members present were also of the same opinion, and to a query as to where a professional stacker could be obtained, Mr McGregor mentioned the names |of several competent men, able to take up such a position. After the matter had been thuroughIv discussed, Mr J. C. McKillop moved that the matter be left in the / hands of the programme committee, with a strong recommendation tu carry out the suggestion. The motion was carried unanimously, anr* Mr McKillop then moved a hearty vote of thanks to Mr McGregor for his generous offer, and stated he was pleased to see that that gentleman still had the interests of the Association at heart. Mr McGregor then withdrew, remarking as he leit that as long a 9 he had a tongue, he would usa it to further the interests of the A. and P. Association.