JERSEY BREEDERS'ASSOCIATION

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10671, 18 July 1912, Page 5

JERSEY BREEDERS'ASSOCIATION

ANNUAL MEETING. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) SfFRAT!FW(i>, Last Night. The animal meeting of the .New •Zealand:' Jersey Breeders' A»sisccia.tion was held here tih:® afternoon. Forty delegates were ,p,recent, with Mr A. H. Halcombe (Uren.un) in the chair. : TOi'e retiring President, in his adduces, . jXiongjiva'tulated tlfe Association on .the state of itra affiairte. The membership is now 235, and the credit balance £298. ,The fallowing officers were" elected:: —Ptesident", Mr W. N. j Taipp (Ancklariid); Yice-Pireeident, Mr H. E. B. Watson Mesiera A. p. Halcombe: ('retiring Pre- ' feidenit), r T. Mcßa>e and: Tapp were elected to tlie vacarick® 011 the Ciinfcii'l. A motion to redx>ce Mi® fee for •registering in the Herd Book was- defeated. It .was decided that mlemhens tef the Council be reimbursed their exipenpses when travelling on thte Aosocftation's bufiiawiss. Tlie Council was tinstruciedi io prepare a scheme- , to have the country divided into seven divisions, which should be represented hy mem/bers of the council. It was decided to revise the rules, and send a copy to eitch member before the next meeting, at which they shall'be considered. A remit from the Wanganui branch that onjy the offspring of cows with a certain butter fat record be registered was diecussed, and withdrawn. The question of legislation on the question of impure" progeny was referred to the n«ct meeting The Council was recommended to urge auctioneers ntft to, advertise as purefored cattle other than those eligible for the herd book. The Council was instructed to fortnula-to a scheme for giving prizes to encourage young judges. Tlie next meeting was fixed for Palmerston North. Visitors, were entertained in the evening b>; the Stratford branch.