WHANGAREI SHOW

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 355, 16 May 1928, Page 15

WHANGAREI SHOW

CROWDS ATTEND OPENING POULTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS (From Our Own Correspondent) WHANGAREI, Tuesday. Whangarei’s 52nd annual winter show was ope red by the Minister of Health, Hon. J. A. Young, tonight, the president, Mr. L. W. Nelson, presiding. The main streets of the town were decorated and illuminated. There was a large attendance of townspeople and visitors by extra excursion trains. The ordinary show building and adjacent Drill Hall buildings were thronged. The chief awards in the poultry section were: North Island Poultry, Pigeon and Canary Association’s Championships, Black Peking Bantam.—Mr. Warwick Parkes. Brown Leghorns, fancy.—Mr. H. K. May. Alexander Hoey Memorial Trophy, value 10gns., for best bird in show.—Mr. A. Cafler. Trophy, value sgns., best young bird in show.—Mr. A Cafler. Cup for best young Leghorn in show.— Club Shield for best young bird in utility section. —Mr. A. Cafler. Club Shield for best bird in show of opposite sex to winner of Hoey Memorial —Mr. George Ambler. “VERY FINE EXHIBITION’” HEALTH MINISTER’S TRIBUTE (From Our Own Correspondent) WHANGAREI, To-day. At the opening ceremony last evening Mr. W. Jones, M.P., said that the Minister of Health, coming from the famous Waikato, was likely to have his faith in his own district shaken after seeing what North Auckland could produce. The Hon. J. A. Young complimented Whangarei on the very fine exhibition, especially the butter display, and said it augured well for the future of the North when it was >ble to make such a fine display, and he believed the North had a great future. Mr. W. A. Hanson, of Auckland, judge of the poultry section, said the poultry exhibits were exceptionally good, especially the white leghorns, and orpingtons. The white leghorn cockerel owned by Mr. A. Cafler was fit to win in any show in New Zealand. The orpington cockerel in the utility class owned by Mr. George Ambler was an easy winner. The brown leghorns were few but of very good quality, and those owned by Mr. H. K. May, in the latter class which won the North Island Championship, were particularly good. The bantams were also a splendid class. The birds owned by Mr. H. K. May, of Whangarei, were of very good quality. The show pigeons went to Auckland to-day, and will be released to-morrow at 11 a.m. to race to Whangarei. The first is expected to arrive about two o’clock.