SOUTH WAIRARAPA POULTRY ASSOCIATION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 874, 21 July 1910, Page 6

SOUTH WAIRARAPA POULTRY ASSOCIATION.

-o———• ■ ■ The fourth annual under tho..auspices of the South. AVairarapa Poultry, Pigeon, and Cage Bird Asso- '• ! ciation, opens this afternoon in ' the' Agricultural Hall at. Carterton. The . ! society will have a fine . exhibition of ' ■ poultry, entries having come in iii large ' j numbers. .About 400 birds will be : penned, of which 250 are poultry, and the remainder pigeon and cage birds.. Working Homers aro the principal entries in pigeons, and competition in i some of the classes will, be very keen. ■ Among the. poultry classes, " leghorn, wj;andottes,. and orpingtons,. are the : chiefly-contested, in addition to the 'j utility classes. The birds, coming ; forward are considered to be some of the finest in the North Island," and among those showing are": Messrs. R. J. Chapman, C. R. P. Armstrong, E. B. Eagle, P. C. Anderson, H. Mey'rick, H. DeUer, H. M'Phee, J. J. Mead (Car-, terton), R. 0. Jarrett, H. Madley, T. W. ■ Barnes (Masterton), Doig and Thomas, 3. Citrrie (Wellington), H. Wall, S. Curd, T. H. Stewart,.M. Sullivan, W. Carr, R. Smith (Hastings), ; C. Smith (Pahiatua), P. G. and G. 13. Thorndon (Clive), R. A. Williams (Mangntainoka), and numerous others. .'■ Principal exhibitors in pigeons aro: ; Messrs. J. Bradbury, H. M. Wilton, J. . i Dyton,. A. Miller, E. J. Oliver, E. M. Flanagan, C. W. Valler, W. J. Drake, W. 0. Hoar,, ,T. Winchester (llasteiton), J. M. Nicholls (Carterton), E L. Tonics .(Wellington), T. O'Brien, Thomas Bullick (Hastings). . Mr._> S. Johnson, of Palmerston North, is judg-- ■ ing all classes, except the utility, Mr. R. -.0. Jarrett-, of Masterton, being tb' judge for this class. "