NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 187, 27 April 1918, Page 10

NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW

j Prize schedules for the National Dairy ; " Show are now available, and may be had j post free on application to the secretary, Box 85, Palmerston North. A very comi prehensive programme of outdoor amusements has been drawn, up, including the i Wanganui-Te Auto College football matches, which will be played on the • second day of the sbow (Wednesday, Juno ; 19), as usual; sheep dog trials on Thnrsi day, June 20; and horse and pony leaping on Friday, Juno 21; The arrange- ■ nients' indoors will be specially attrac- , five at this juncture in, the history of our Empire. Everybody is now agreed :; that the first care of all British subjects' , after the war is to see ihat our comnier- : cial affairs are not allowed to drift into the hands of those who would, if it were ; possible, appropriate not only our j businesses but our persons, to their own 1 ends, His Majesty's Trade Commissioner i (Mr. Tl. W. Dalton) has therefore nr- : ■ Tanged with the committee to organise an • oxhibition of all Britisli goods at the '• 'National Dairy f-how. A large block of | space has been allocated for this special ourpose, so that a most interesting and .. Uistruetivo display will be staged to show •the public what the Mother Country is !.. doing .towards the objects above men- • tioned. •Thes-'' exhibits will be additional to the usual fine show of dairy and other machinery, etc. LIVESTOCK SALES ! The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile ; Agency Co. report that on Tuesday they held a, sale of dairy stock on account of ! Jfessrs. Greenfield and Moore, Bainesse. ' There was a good attendance, and a very satisfactory sale resulted. Sixty-six cows ; made an average of £11 4s. The best prices were £15 55., £16, £16 10s„ £17 ss. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile 1 ] Agency Co. report:—At I'almorston North | on Wednesday, at our usual weekly sale, i wc had a fair yarding of sheep and a ; uniall yarding of cattle, which sold at late'rates. iSmall lambs, ss. 6d. to 10s.; , fair lambs, lis. 6d. to 145.; f.ni. empty ' owes, 10s.; fat woolly lambs, 245. 3d.; small ■ weaners, 255.; eighteen-month heifers, £3 i 10s.; fat cows, £12.