FRIESIAN BREEDERS MEET

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1003, 20 June 1930, Page 12

FRIESIAN BREEDERS MEET

YEAR’S OFFICERS ELECTED Press Association PALMERSTON X., Thursday. The Friesian cattle breeders today elected the following: officers: —President, Major R. A. Wilson (Bulls); vicepresidents, Messrs. E. M. North (Omimi), and H. E. Johnson (Tokaora»; council, Messrs. E. M. North (Omirci). E. E. McGowan (Auckland), H. E. Johnson (Tokaora), O. A. Cadwallader (Greytown); treasurer, Mr. E. J. McGowan. Special prize money of £SO was allotted for provincial group competition at the Royal Show, and it was decided to pay 75 per cent, of the transport expenses of pedigree Friesians competing at the Royal Show. North Island championships were allotted to the Franklin A. and P. Association, and South Island championships to the Southland A. and P. Association. An allocation of £65 was made to the 1030 Eerby competition, to give protection to new and inexperienced breeders, so that they may make purchases calculated to ensure a reasonable chance of success. The council was asked to enlarge i the present rules governing the con- , duct of auction sales. The meeting ; approved a suggestion that the time j had arrived when the association I should cease to accept fur the herdbook any and every calf that happened to be born of purebred parents, and the council was instructed to draw ;ip for consideration by the next meeting a scale of points for classifying bulls and cows according to type, as well as on butter-fat.