RAM FAIRS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4651, 17 February 1894, Page 3

RAM FAIRS.

" The following remarks on Earn fairs appear in the last issue of the Wairarapa Standard :—" Tho Wairarapa and East Coast Pastoral and Agricultural .Association did 'betjej. this year out of the FairjWlhose who entered tbe exhibits, having received some £6O by way of entrance fees. The Fair was all in favor of buyers. From what we hear we learn there are two complaints made about the Fair. One, that facilities for delivery are almost lacking, and much confusion aud bad 'temper engendered thereby amdhgst new pwners of'diffWenf lots." It is said that one of the" auctioneers has suggested a' simple plan, inexpensive "anil effectual, to give'deliyery at any time during' the laif. This gentjetnau for his opn convenience anil for tho Baku of his clients offered to pay part p'f the expenses of I|is proposal himself, but nothing was' dope,' The Association JigjlW plainly remedy this drawback ant}' sliopljl do sp, Tjje qtber cause of ppmpjaint is that) the entries are too numerous, . ?bat from being a fair at which the cream of the Hocks of the district could be exhibited, compared, and purchased, it is degenerating into a mere ordinary ram sale, of entries of any kinds of sheep are made in anvmumber in the hope of effecting a sale of surplus rams. This may lie»tm? bill, but yet, we should say, the more numerous tho entries, the greater, the ■•opportunities, for corniarijon, both q'n the part uf ; breeders andbnyers. TbePdroust be*a certain element of disappoinfmeut to firstclass breeders about- auoh a Fair, however, as'it is ; a"great temptation \n buyers'to go for cheapness.where berhaps tjje hreeiler has £onejn purely rV'quaiity. A' ihirty -shilliig rain may'sell in place of one worth thirty ijf hip. 'Of co'urseit may' be said'.' If l a man want's shouldn't ha pjiat thirty shillings f, ' T|ie' : reply a ram can'be piotedufrany d»y 4 W prdj'nary etock safe, apd that i| was not todrp a big attendance to promote the sale of such a sheep that tbe Fair is organised. Again it will bo arguod why ' should not a poor man he able to go to a Bam pick the best bit of money ? .3J113 BC-uVui all right aim w& ore no?

w ,-5 to Brguß pibouf it,' Wo give B jwe bear and the | Qstotalists I ' isejves must work out the solution H hy difficulty that nlay exist," '