SHEEP BREEDERS ASSOCIATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 139, 12 June 1903, Page 2

SHEEP BREEDERS ASSOCIATION.

Per Preos Association. PiLMEOSTO* NOETH, JttM 11, At the annual meeting»f the North lilaad B auoh of the bheep-bnedwt Association to-day the report referred to certain practices at ram fairs. The <ealtfff, it was said, were sometimes firms of repute wh >, either from indifference or oireltsweu, were some* times made use of by unscrupulous persons to sell a much hrger number of rann than tho registered flock o-uld possibly produce. In had been brought to the Council's notics that attempts had been made to procure ear libels bearing tho name beheging to some o her breede", and it was purpoiei to ask the Agricultural Department, when amending the Agricultural and Pastotal Ac*, to int.oJuoe a clause onfurring rights of trade mark upon a n>me regktercd by tho stul, bed, and fljck book societies. Tbe report was adopted. The bilanos-sheet showed a oredh cf £217 18) and a balance of asse'sof£3s3 5j 8.1, A motion was cirritd that the A-soih'ion consider tha advisability of holding ram fairs in tho North Island, at such places as are considered suitable, under the management of the Association. It w*s«lso l«cUtd that this ra e'i»g is stroigly oppu-ed to 1b» propos.l smamting fiomtheSrath Inland branch to allow idnsusion from timi to time of fl»k» now unregistered.