BOYS’ AND GIRLS’ CLUBS.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 December 1922, Page 5

BOYS’ AND GIRLS’ CLUBS.

CALF-REARING COMPETITIONS. SOOTH TARANAKI CHAMPIONSHIPS. The championships in the South Taranaki Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs calf-rearing competitions were awarded at Hawera last week, when entries, comprising a nice, even lot of young animals, were received from Matapu, Okaiawa, Normanby, Arar ata, Tokaora and Toko. The competitions were divided into schools and then groups, from the winners of which the championships were awarded, the classes comprising—(1) Jerseys and Ayrshire; (2) Shorthorns and Friesians. Points were given cost, 100 points; (2) record, 50 points; (3) condition, 100 points; total, 250 points. There were nine entries in each class, and the judges were very enthusiastic in their appreciation of the condition of the calves, stating they were a nice even lot, all wellgrown and mostly in capital condition. Evidence was there, however, in. some cases, of want of care and proper feeding. This last, said one of the judges, was in one or two cases quite marked. The fact that entries came from so far as Toko shows the interest taken by parents as well as the children. The cost of rearing averaged in the case of the Jerseys 14s 7d, and the bigger breeds 15s 8d —an instructive fact. The highest was 255, and the lowest 9s. In the school records there were some down to 3s 6d, but this seems almost impossible. The relation between cost and condition is very important, for the ideal must be to feed as cheaply as possible without sacrificing condition, which must be maintained. Record charts are therefore essential. The results of the championships are as below (points as noted are for cost, record, condition, in that order): CHAMPIONSHIPS. JERSEYS AND AYRSHIRE?.

Edna Chainey, Toko .. 85 42 89 222 Jane Keighley, Matapu . 86 42 91 219 Rupert Griffen, Tokaora 87 35 91 216 Clyde Griffen, Tokaora. 82 35 98 215 Chas. Walker, Okaiawa. 91 35 87 213 Naomi Rayner, Ararat a 90 43 78 211 Terry Rayner, Ararata. 90 37 83 210 Don Stewart, Normanby 75 34 100 209 Hector McLean, Tokaora 84 43 70 197 (The entries were all Jerseys.) SHORTHORNS AND HOLSTEINS: Lewis Hodson. Rawhiti86 39 95 220 Phyllis Wood, Rawhitiroa 84 A 44 90 218} Gordon Hamilton, Normanby (s) 73* 41 100 214 A Jas. Lee, Ararata (f).. 94 35 74 203 Rhoda Henry, Matapu (s) 88 45 68 201 John Glynn, Ohangai (f) 83 35 81 199 Thos. Glynn, Ohangai (f) 94 31 71 195 Florence Seed, Matapu (s) 91 45 50 186 Jas. Johnson, Tokaora (f) 79 30 64 173 (f denotes Friesian; s, Shorthorn.)