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[from A.M Harrision's Descriptive List of Insular Societies]
The show held at the Palace, Douglas, on New Year's day, like the Ramsey show which followed it a week later, was also deemed very successful, though at a higher level of achievement. 'The opinions of the judges in the different classes were unanimous that the show, as a whole was a credit to the Island, and in most of the classes a gradual improvement is noticed every year. So far has the Island advanced in the improvement of dogs and poultry, that the judges strongly advise that the show should be thrown open to the British Islands, with the exception of one or two classes that might be confined to the Island. .... the advantage of throwing the show open would be that a better class of exhibits would be brought over here, and that Manxmen would thereby have a better idea of what to aim at in improving the breed, and also be able to purchase good stuff'.
The 'hard-working committee' of local officials were praised and 'the Lieutenant Governor visited the show, and expressed his gratification at seeing such a capital dog show on the Island'. The reporting newspaper, the Peel City Guardian of 5 January 1895, revealed its own parochial tendencies by listing only the prize-winners belonging to Peel.
M.N.H.L.. Isle of Man newspapers ut supra
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