Canterbury A. & P. Show.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 244, 13 November 1903, Page 3

Canterbury A. & P. Show.

CHRIST CHURCH, Nov. 12. ! The Canterbury A. and X 5. Associartion's Show was favoured with 1 splendid weather, and a record at- ] tendance for judging day. Stock ( generally were shown in excellent > condition, though a few exceptions l evidenced the severe winter exper- r lenced in the South. Machinery and , implements numbered 1559 entries ( as against 1544 last year. Draught . horses and sheep were specially fine 1 sections. The falling off of a hun- . died in the entries for sheep was , accounted for by the reduced nomin- i ations of unpopular breeds, Lincoln, i Border Lc,tester, and Romney, and the dispersion during the year of ' severe l English Leicester flocks, and 1 the absence of rivalry ial fat * and the, y ' h ° Wever ' did not suffer,' i and thcic was scarcely a bad sheep ' i« the show. The chief exhibitors < were-In fine combing Merinos, Robeit Campbell and Sons • combing, A. W. Rutherford' W Gar ' dmer and White Rock Estete §£ lit, LeiCes ' tw ' B. and J ~e wes. R- Kellahd, p. u LUtle t ; - f rd<!r John Little; Lincolns, JIZ and a r " ' Co. (Moeraki) / R . John ' Dea-nf.°"sh' T C " tOrS lat « ' Parry amTstV Pre ' Ku P ert ' set iloTn Jor " averaS- H y R«L^ ite up - to Prince secured first and*,-) Hl^hlaud entire horses Mr R cha '»l«oii il! fame second ]£srs ° «°J'al Baylor, and Small took m*' Pai awards in the „ t , hc prillci " Taylor securing Hi ' classes - Mr »est prize take?. I n uf \ the lar " cattle the show was ai Sectlons fol ' on that of recent lni P' - °venient th ® principal feature^' S ' /? >ro,mbl y °'f Ayrshire call , f the tea »> W- Cowan, oj fe 1 * «P "y Mr «iese secured all fh u' 0ai »aru. ln the section Shorn, cham P ion sMi>s represented. Ml . were well brKlge, took the r h Wl,fo ? k ' Souttoand Mr Lll f '"P'onship for I'ionship for e „' Ve ** B the chomvery go od show ol hi ° Was a 1 were a good cattle. d "ce, though the enti? nXI (Ja "' y P ro ~ «' a « excellent i„ ( , " S W ?''° s,nal1 > chopping, competition J,le w ood R - Kuba, M. Doodv h Was *"° a by »- cs r-E' s -S»S