Sheep Dog Trials To Be In Canterbury

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30975, 3 February 1966, Page 10

Sheep Dog Trials To Be In Canterbury

The conduct of this year’s New Zealand sheep dog trial championships had been entrusted to Canterbury, the president, Mr W. J. Lundie, said in his report to the annual meeting of the Canterbury centre of the New Zealand Sheep Dog Trial Association yesterday. The Tai Tapu Collie Dog Club had arrangements well in hand and given favourable weather and support of all clubs he was sure that this meeting would be up to the standards of previous New Zealand championship trials. The president of the Tai Tapu club, Mr D. P. Graham, reported to the meeting on the progress his club was making in preparing for the championships which will begin on June 13. He said that the club trials from April 27 to 29 would be used as a trial run and any complications that occurred then could be remedied before the New Zealand trials. ( This year’s Canterbury championships will be held by Malvern Collie Club from March 21 to 26 and Oxford Collie Club was selected to hold next year’s championships. The Mackenzie Collie Dog Club affirmed its wish to hold the South Island championships next year at Burke’s Pass. Mr Lundie said in his annual report that the Mackenzie club was the oldest in the centre and in the last year had celebrated its

seventy-fifth jubilee trials. The meeting rejected a Geraldine remit that in the event of a tie for sixth place in the Canterbury championships the seven dogs should run off for championship honours.

Mr J. H. Divers said that a rule should be made so that judges and clubs were not left to decide and the meeting approved a proposal of Mr P. Newton that in the event of a tie for sixth place these two dogs should run off again and that the points that they had scored originally should be taken into account for the championships. Officers were elected as follows: patrons, Mesdames G. H. Trumper and H. M. DampierCrossley, Messrs R. L. Symonds, R. S. Bassett, and T. Morten: president, Mr Lundie: senior vice-president, Mr K. S. Pettigrew: junior vice-pre-sident, Mr Divers; secretary, Mr T. K. Court: representative on New Zealand council, Mr Divers; delegate to New Zealand association, Mr R. M. Wilson; deputy delegate to New Zealand association, Mr D. E. Woodill; judges’ selection committee, Messrs H. Inch, Wilson and Divers; emergency committee, Messrs C. A. McKay, Inch, K. Neill, J. M. Pickering, Lundie, and Pettigrew; trustees, Messrs Inch and Pickering.

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