NATIONAL JERSEY SHOW AND SALE

Southland Times, Issue 24243, 28 September 1940, Page 12

NATIONAL JERSEY SHOW AND SALE

GOOD PRICES REALIZED AT CLAUDELANDS

The eighteenth National Jersey Show and Sale held at Claudelands, Hamilton, attracted a very large and keen bench of buyers who were representative of most of the dairying districts of the North Island. There was a decided demand for quality and butter-fat backed bulls, buyers realizing that the rearing of more heifer calves definitely called for sires that were highly backed and bred with an assurance of improving production standards. The national sale, which has strict entrance regulations, gave buyers a confidence and from the outset their brisk bidding was evidence that they realized the breeding potentialities of the bulls which came before them.

The show held before the sale saw the three times royal champion, Keeper’s Marquis, exhibited by Mr W. H. Jakins, Christchurch, awarded grand champion, thus winning the Wright, Stephenson Cup. The two-year-old championship was won by Dr G. Walker’s (Whangarei) Beaulieu Gambeau while the junior championship proved a dead-heat between Mr J. Jameson’s (Masterton) Tuhitarata Oxford Lark and Mr W. S. McEwen’s (Cambridge) Craigknoll Design’s Ajax. The cup for best three yearling bulls was won by Mr W. S. McEwen with Mr J. Jameson second.

The sale, which was held by Wright, Stephenson and Company Limited, was a record, the average over all being 57£gn. The top price was 120gn, seven head sold for over lOOgn, and 33 (more than a third of the catalogue) sold for over 60gn. There were only two passings, and the sale was remarkable for the high standard of values throughout the complete offering of 94 head.