DATES OF POULTRY SHOWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 51, 23 November 1907, Page 3

DATES OF POULTRY SHOWS.

CHAMPIONSHIPS ALLOTTED. ,' ■ (BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) , • Hawera', Novembor- 22.. , Tho. North ■ Island Poultry Association! has allotted the following dates for shows:— Woqdvill,e,l June 3;' Wha'ngarei,'.Juno 5 and 6; .Eketahnna, Juno 11"and.12; ; Palmcrstbri North, June 17,'18, and 19;' Auckland, June '18, 19, .and 20; Waihi, ■Juno 24 and 25; Wellington,-Juno 25, 26, and ,27; Carterton, July 1- and 2; 'Newton,' July' 3; Pahiatua, July 7 and 8; Wanganui, July 8 and 9;" Wairarapa, July 10 and 11;' Gisborne, July 9 and 10; Hawera, July 15 and 16; Hastings, July 17 and 18; HawkoV Bay, July 21 and 22; Taranaki, Julv 23, 24, and 25; Marton, July 28 and 29; T.aihape, August 6 and 7; Inglewood, March 12 and 13; AYaikato, date of A arid P." Show., ; < ■ , Championships', have been allotted -as follow white Orpington'and golden Wyandotte. Wanganui, Plymouth barredrocks and Rouen ducks, flawke's Bay, white Plymouth Rocks, buff prpington, and' ducks. Marton, White • Wyandottcs • and f ant nil; pigeons. Eketahunn, Andalnsiahs,'partridge Wyandottcs. Wellington,. Brahmas, A'.O.V. Wyandottcs,' show .Homers.. Whangarcij. do'rkirigs, owls, and turbits. Tarnnaki, Indian, game, Aylesbury- ducks, tumblers'. Wairarapa, British.game and dragoons. Auckland, black Hamburgs, working homers, • Pokin ducks. Taihape, spangled Hamburgs, A.OIV. bantams. ' Woodville, pencilled Hamburgs'. Carterton, A.O.V. Hamburgs, India Runner ducks. Gisborhe, brown Leghorns. Waikato,' white Leghorns. Inglewood, Langshangs. Pahiatua, buff Leghorns and silver Wyandottcs. Manawatu. black Minorcas and Yorkshire! canaries. Hawera, black Orpingtonii, frill' pigeons... Waihi; buff ' Orpingtons and game bun tains. Nowton', magpies, Norwich' plain head and crested. . "

THE CHIEF DAIRY COMMISSIONER. TO VISIT BRITAIN SHORTLY. It has been decided by the Department of Agriculture that Mr. D. Ciiddio,. Dairy Commissioner, is to leave the Dominion 'shortly for Great Britain, where he is to inspect anil report upon the manner in which tho grading" of butter and cheese is .carried out at tho' receiving ports of the United Kingdom taking Colonial produce. It is understood'that Mr.. Cuddie will remain in Great Britain only

a .short-period,. and ho will then return to New Zealand; but ho will bo followed by the ontiro members of the grading division of the. Department in turn, so that they may compare and, in a measure, accustom themselves to; tho. system adopted in the older country. -It was stated some time ago that Mr. Cuddic to inspect the grading. systems' of Great Jlritairi, and he was setnajly. offered the position by the. Department.. He was not then Commissioner, howover, and expressed a disinclination to make the' inspection unless placed'in the proper responsible capacity for effecting a reform should it be desirable.