HEREFORD BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION.
ANNUAL REPORT
Mr G. K. Sykes, the secretary, has supplied us with the annual report of the New Zealand Hereford Cattle Breeders' Association, which will be read with interest by Wairarapa breeders. It is as follows: Your Council have great pleasure in submitting the statement of accounts and balance-sheet for the year ended SOth June, 1910, which will be presented at the annua! meeting to be held at Mr E. J. Wackrill's office, Feilding, on Friday, 23rd September, at 1 p.m
The balance of assets over liabilities is now ±-517 7s 9d. which, after writing down the surplus copies of Volume XII. from actual cost price of 16s Id to 5s each, and allowing for expenditure of £44 2s 5d for purchase of the "History of Hereford Cattle," shows a slight debit on the year's transactions. Publication of Volumes XII., containing the registration of 121 bulls and 798 cows, has been completed, and is now in the hands of members. The forty volumes of the "History of Hereford Cattle, "|ordered from the Live Stock Journal Co., England, and referred to in the last annual report, have now come to hand, and a copy has been posted to each member. Your Council feel confident that this splendid work will prove of great educative value to all concerned. Taking advantage of the opportunity afforded by Mr E. Short's visit to the Argentine in April last, your Council forwarded with that gentleman for distribution among the principal breeders of that country, twenty copies of Hereford Book, Volume XII., besides other literature dealing with HerefordH.By.this means your Council trust the attention of the estancieros will be drawn to the fact that Hereford cattle inured to climatic conditions ,•somewhat, similar to those prevailing in the Argentine, and equal, if not superior, to the same breed reared in other countries, can be produced in New Zealand. Your Council desire to place on record their appreciation and thanks to Mr Short for the trouble and interest he haa taken in connection with this matter. As evidence of the increasing popularity of the "White Face," your Council are advised from a very trustworthy source that the demand for Hereford Cattle in the Old Country for exportation to the Argentine haa lately been of such an unprecedented character that it is practically impossible just now to p.ocure a Hereford bull in England. Herefords are still rnakirg great headway in New Zealand. The grazing capabilities of the breed their great fattening qualities, combined with their comparative immunity from disease render them particularly suitable for crossing with less hardy breeds. ] The President and Vice-President, Messrs F. W. Arbon and G. M. Currie, and two members of the Council, Messrs D, P. Buchanan and A. C. Morton, retire by rotation, but are eliigble for re-election. Nominations for these offices will be received by the Secretary, Mr G. R. i Sykes. I
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10072, 20 August 1910, Page 3
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