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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 47, 19 October 1912, Page 6

At the Wellington Supreme Court to-day Cuthbert William Bride;©, who had admitted five charges of cattlestealing. was admitted to probation on the first charge and ordered to pay costs, and on the other charges was ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. The slaughterman at the Stratford Abattoirs claims weigh t-fov-ago record with 'a Irtmb nut through hi" hands on Thiimlav! *’ Tt was a Southdown, four months old (16th June was the exac+ date,' he was careful to state), bred b- Mr .T. 0. Healy, of Stratford, and Ftp cold'carcase turned the scale at 61 lbs. ' * The. Stratford A. and P. Association have again secured Mr. W. G. Malone’s Paddocks on the Onnnake Pond for the champion butter-fat competition. A '’asein and butter-fat combined test will also he made, and this part of the competition will be under tlm supervision of the Dairy Division of the Agricultural Department, Entries close rm 1 jit November, 1912. Another competition fp* dairymen is scheduled as tbo model dairv farm competition. In this competition points will be awarded for dairv herds, crons, fences, nin-stres. haystacks, milking sheds, and paddocks. General entries close on 21st November.