EGG-LAYING.
(P*t- Press Association.)
Blenheim, last night. The total for the'46th week of the'irST' Zealand Egg-laying is 1046,. making the grand aggregate 81,743, and weekly average per pen 14'6. The highest layings for the week were r—Snodgrass’ black Or* piDgtons, MastertoD, 26 ; Mrs Griffiths’ silver Wyandottes, Blenheim,' 26; Alexandra Poultry Company’s white Plymouth Rocks, 25 ; Miss Murphy's rose oomb black Orpiogtons, Blenheim, 24; Chiok Fridlos’ white Leghorns, Blenheim, 24 ; Jonathan Hodson’s white Leghorns, Blenheim, 24. The order of merit in the grand aggregates run as followe, the first pen being white Lsghorns ; St. Leger, of LeviD, 1297 ; Marlborough A. and P. As* scciatioD, 1144 ; Brooks, South Australia, 1142 ; Jonathan HodsoD, Blenheim, 1141 s Miss Mick Shaw, Blenheim, 1128; Hockey, brown Leghorns, Nelson, 1097. The main feature of the week is that the A. and P. Association has passed Brooks, and got into seoond place.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1702, 19 March 1906, Page 2
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