FINE STOCK DISPLAY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 500, 1 November 1928, Page 12

FINE STOCK DISPLAY

FIFTH ROYAL SHOW CHAMPIONSHIP AWARDS Press Association. PALMERSTON N., Wednesday. To-day was judging day at the Fifth Royal Show, when a splendid array of pedigree stock was presented to the judges. Weather conditions are showing an improvement and a large attendance is expected. The gate takings for both days show an increase over last year’s Manawatu Show figures, namely, first day, £3O 10s; second day, £7l 6s 6d. The following are championship awards: Beef Cattle.—Shorthorns: Bull and reserve champion, J. A. Johnston (Palmerston North); cow and reserve champion, A. McLean (Hastings). Herefords: Bull and reserve, J. McKenzie (Maungahira); cow, estate of E. Short (Feilding); reserve cow, J. S. Kelson (Woodville). Aberdeen Angus: Bull. W. Kinross White (Napier); reserve buli, estate of A. S. G. Carlyon (Tikokino); cow. estate of A. S. G. Carlyon; reserve, W. A. Macfarlane (Hastings). Dairy Cattle.—Milking Shorthorns: Bull, R. D. Duxfield (Horotiu); reserve bull, A. Tocker (Featherston); cow, G. D. Hall (Iviokio); reserve, R. V. 'Brown (Weraroa). Red Polls: Central Development Farm (Weraroa). Friesians: Bull, Hobson Farm Company (Auckland); re-

serve bull, Bloomfield Farm Company (Upper Hutt); cow, O. A. Cadwallader (Greytown); reserve cow, Hobson igarm Company. Ayrshires: Bull, A. J. Woods (Woodville); reserve bull, Webb Bros. (Levin); cow and reserve, C. B. Morgan (Woodville). .Jerseys: Bull, A. Moreland and Son (Te Rapa); reserve bull, W. H. Miers (Rototuna,) ; cow, W. J. Hall and Son (Matatoki); reserve cow, R. L. Horn (Ohaka). Sheep.—Ryelands: Ram, J. Brooks (Brookside); reserve, E. Averill , and Sons (Hastings). Lincolns: Ram in wool, L. R. Wilton (Masterton); reserve, Sir R. D. D. McLean (Napier); ewe, W. H. Gaisford (Dannevirke); reserve, L. R. Wilson. English Leicesters in wool: Champidn, Sir R. Heaton Rhodes; reserve, S. D. McLean. Border Leicesters: G. V. Pearce (Wa.itotara). Pigs.—Large whites: Boar, C. G. C. Dermer (Cheltenham); reserve boar,' Eddie and Hancock (Pahiatua); champion sow, Rowan and Wilson (Hastings); reserve sow: D. and S. Ross (Te Puke). Berkshires: Champion boar: J. A. Russell (Palmerston North); reserve boar: Central Development Farm (Weraroa); champion sow and reserve, J. A. Russell Tam worths: Boar, D. and S. Ross (To Puke); reserve, Bird Bros. Oroua Downs). Sow: D. and S. Ross; reserve Bowen and Wilson (Hastings). Large black boar: D. and S. Ross; reserve E. P. Neilsen (Tiakitahuna) ; sow, E.* P Nielsen; reserve, Central Development Farm (Weraroa).

Johnstone’s Bushy Park Augustus Hero won the New Zealand Shorthorn Society’s cup for the' best Shorthorn, male or female, registered in the society’s herd book; also the cup for the best pedigree Shorthorn bull, presented by the Shorthorn Society of Great Britain and Ireland.