The big slip in the Manawatu Gorge looked, at one time, as if it would effectively spoil the Spring Show of the Manawatu and West Coast A. and P. Association at Palmerston North, for it is well known that much of the best stock usually exhibited at the Show comes from the runs of the principal breeders in Hawke's Bay and Wairarapa and it was through the Gorge that this stock would have to be railed under normal circumstances. Fortunately for the Show and those exhibitors in the districts named who had made all preparations for attending the Show the Department decided that it would convey all the Show exhibits offering through the Hawke's Bay and Wairarapa areas to Palmerston North, via Wellington instead of via the Gorge, and would do this without imposing any extra charge for the additional service. Even then, some trepidation was felt by breeders regarding the advisability of trusting their animals to the railway for the unusually long and arduous journey which conveyance over the Rimutaka incline, round through Wellington, and thence by the Manawatu Line to Palmerston North would entail. The bulk of them, however, undertook the risk, and were well satisfied with the excellence of the service given. This fact has been emphasised to the Department both verbally and by letter. So pleased were some of the principal exhibitors that, although they had the chance of making a much shorter journey home by driving their stock a few miles along the road route through the Gorge, they preferred to again trust the railway for the full round journey via Wellington and the Rimutaka.