THE LATE SHOW.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 698, 5 December 1876, Page 3

THE LATE SHOW.

Bib,— lt will appear presumptiou* on roy p*rt*-V> »»y » word in answer to AgncoHnrUist, after the able manner in -which you b*ve oriticiied bit letter. "With regard to the absence of small exhibit! »t Obaupo, it wm purely the fanlt of the committee in leaving them out of the programme. Like msny others, I thought thin was an oversight, and pointed it oat in your columns, bat, I mb*iqu«ntly found it w«i intentional not to offer prizes for farm, dairy, or garden produce, and, 1 think public opinion was against the committee on that question. I, with many other*, think it is of equal importance to en•courage the unall farmer as the large and wealthy, who are able to look after themselves. So much do I feel this, th*t, if the committee of any future show think it not worth while to to provide prizes •within the reach of every unall farmer in the di t ict, I, M • ■mall farmer, shall not think it worth while to subscribe. To ask a man to »übioribe, and then exclude him from the jirizo list, is to eaclud^hia sympathy, and eioite bit opposition. About Mr Runciman hitting the right nail en tbe head when he adfooated taking the shows to the population, that is a matter of opinion. In the first place, where it the population to take »♦ to without exciting the jealousy of some other little PedKngton. One gentleman ■uggered to hold the show on the Hamilton "Punt." I look upon a show as a means of affording breeders an opportnnity of comparing their flocks and herds, irrespective of prizes, where the amall farmar and mechanic can compare their productions; where the farmers wives m»y show all Uindi of household ni«-naoks, th« absence of which robs a abow of more than half ita interestwhere we may hope to meet our citizen friendt, their wives, daughter, and ■isters-wbere they may forget hard times, competition and bad debts—whe.e their wives may recruit their health, youth and beauty, by a run in the c. untiy, and where could you find a more lovely spot than the one selected for tho tbow at Ohaupo, with its undulating pasture, its placid lakes and dark ytt n woods, a picture to delight an artist. 11 the late *how wss a failure, every other •h. w held in tb« Wsikato was a failure <c>crpt the •eoo«"l held in T« Av/amutu) All the pens and classes might be tilled »t a local show, and excite the remark that tbe exhibits bad better have been at borne, whereas, in this instance, the •ihiblta were good, if !•*, and numbers could not have made them better. As

regards the season, I think the *how might have been held two or three weeks earlier, with advantage to the Bhe«>|>, *n<l thus avoid the risk of keeping the wool on valuable animals. The cucle and horses were in better condition than any *toi k ever ■hown in Autumn, in W aik»to. — I am, &c, Cockatoo.