AGRICULTURAL SHOW.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 March 1917, Page 4

AGRICULTURAL SHOW.

ADDITIONAL RESULTS. The following addit'/jnal results are i now to hand in connection with compej titions hold at (he recent Taranaki Metropolitan Show: WEIGHT GUESSING COMPETITION. llu> bullock, when killed yesterday, was found to weigh 6741b5. J. 0. Wright (Matapu) G73lbs, and Jas. Kibby, (i7;l]bs, tied, and divide first and hpcond prize, each taking £3 10s, while Mr L. B. Webster, with G72lbs, taken £l, the third prize money. The actual weight of the sheep was 2041b5. Messrs J. 11. Allen (Tikorangi) 2031b5, G. A Adlam (Oakura), 2031b5, J. J. Collins 205 ibs, C. W. Sartcn 2051b5, It. P. Lye 2051bs and P. Hodson 2051bs all tied, and tako 10s each. BOVS' COW JUDGING.

Mr E. Griffiths has announced his decision in the boys' cow judging competition, in which 5S boys from Waitara, Tarurutangi, Frankley Road, Hillsborough, Puniho, New Plymouth Technical College, and New Plymouth High School competed. The first two prize winners hail from the Frankley Road school, which also takes the fourth and fifth places, an excellent performance. A lad from Puniho was third. The results were:—Ronald Kendall, Frankley Road 1; Richard Hnwkc, Frankley Road 2; Richard M'Eldowney, Puniho, 3; Leo Allen, Frankley Road," 4, Douglas Ballantyne, Frankley Road, 5. GENERAL. • In Berkshire pigs, the championship was won by a sow under 12 months, exhibited by Messrs Stewart and Landsperg, of Normanby. A sow under six months, owned by Guy Bell, of Oakura, which gained first prize in its section, was credited with the championship through the pens being altered. In the competition for the best bareback pony rider, the judges were unable to decide between Dorothy Cleaver, of Hawera and Leo Cleaver. The judge and Mi- 11. Linn each augmented the guinea prize by a donation of ss, and each winner was awarded 15/0. When Mr W. J. Rose's (Tikorangi) pony Pehoi won the maiden pony jumping competition, the prize for which was £2, the owner made the Society the handsome donation of £5. It is pleasing to chronicle that this fine sport's horse Black Jack won the jumping competition, steeplechase style, wheh was the next event. The points prizes have not vet been made up.

The Corinna this week shipped 4205 crates of cheese from the works at matufoil for transhipment at Wellington. Next Saturday it is expected that the panic steamer will ship another' 4500 crates. On Monday, owing to there being no connecting steamer, 4500 boxes of butter will be forwarded to Wellington by rail. "Hell to Pay" \vas tire nick-name they gave him back in the north-west-ern lumber camp because that was what happened when his orders were not carried out promptly. He could lick any man in the camp, but his little adopted daughter—Bessie Love—ruled him with one finger. If you want to lee a Triangle play that is real— a picture that makes you feel you were, a part of ft* great north-west yourself—you should see "HeU to Pay Austin" at Everybody's to-njght. You'll love little Bessio Love, and Wilfred Lucas wilt TJMSgSt you as a. real man.. ?