Every part of Otago, to say the least, must have been represented, and, as is so often the case, the spectators were not the least interesting part of the show.
Otago more, perhaps, than any other province, abounds in types, all of which were in evidence. There was the sunburnt settler from the baking north, the businesslike farmer, the drover from the hills, the plump occupant of happy valleys, and patriarchs gnarled like old oaks, squatters, boundary riders, bosses, and rouseabouts.
Well-groomed and ultra-English squires from Canterbury rubbed shoulders with fustian-clad dwellers with complexion of mahogany. And they were very happy together among their flocks and their herds and endless arguments in the golden glories of summer sunshine. The above, which form an inner circle in the ethics of summer shows, arrived early.
The pens at Tahuna Park and not the allurements of Princes Street were their all-in-all. While there is a stalled ox to be discussed or a sheep to be prodded the fancy goods man sees nothing of these folks' faces, charm he never so wisely.
There was a good attendance in the morning, but the multitudes did not arrive till after lunch, when they made up for lost time. They came through the turnstiles like a flood, to broaden in fan formation, open in two gigantic wings and surround the oval in a broad, bright girdle of kaleidoscopic humanity.
• Macrae's Flat: Quite a mining boom has started on the line of reef commencing to the east of Macrae's Flat, and extending west towards the Tungsten Mine over a distance of about five miles.
At the east end Messrs Peddie and party have applied for part of Gifford's freehold ground. They intend vigorously and systematically to prospect the line of reef for the occurrence of scheelite and gold.
Further west, Mr McKay has applied for his own freehold ground on the line of reef, and a local resident has also applied for ground in the same locality.
Then next to him Mr W. Fraser has started to work his freehold, on which very promising scheelite stone has been disclosed.
Mr G. Cockerill has been offered a good price to mine stone on his freehold farm on which the line of reef outcrops.
Halfway between the Golden Point Mine and the Tungsten Mine a new discovery on the line of reef has been made by Messrs Thomas and party, who have unearthed a very nice display of scheelite bearing stone, and, what is somewhat unusual, the stone also shows gold freely.
- ODT, 25.11.1910
