A. & P. AFFAIRS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 July 1938, Page 7

A. & P. AFFAIRS

MEETING OF MASTERTON ASSOCIATION. EXPORT LAMB COMPETITION. Final arrangements for its annual ball to be held next Wednesday night were discussed at a meeting' of the general committee of the Masterton A. and P. Association, held last night. The president, Mr P. R. Welch, occupied the chair and there was a good attendance of members. The New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board wrote acknowledging receipt of the nomination of Mr J. M. James as a candidate for election as a delegate to the electoral committee of the board. “The board is convinced that the District Lamb competition which it conducts each year with the co-opera-tion of A. and P. Associations has a great educational and advertising value,”- stated another letter from the Meat Producers’ Board. With the intensive competition at Home, the letter added, it is essential that everything possible be done to maintain and improve the quality of our export lambs. With a view to encouraging those who entered for the competition the board had decided to .make certain alterations in the. conditions, the principal ones being, (1) to make a grant of £lO to the controlling A. and P. Association in each district to be allocated as prize money; (2) in addition to presenting a diploma to the winners of the cash prizes in each Island, a diploma is also to be presented to the owners of the best fifteen pens selected to represent their district at Home. The Southdown , Sheep Society of New Zealand advised that it had allotted medals for the best two-tooth ram in the open class and the best two-tooth ram' in natural condition at the next Masterton Show. The Romney Marsh Sheep Breeders’ Association wrote stating that it had been decided to allocate the North Island Autumn Show championship shields for champion Romney ram and •.ewe for competition at the next Masterton Show. The Aberdeen Angus Cattle Breeders’ Association also advised that it had alldcated prize money of £1 Is and 10s 6d for three classes in the Aberdeen Angus section at the Masterton Show. Ten new members were elected. Reporting on the discussions at the recent Royal Society conference, Mr Gordon Lee said they all regretted that nothing had’ been done to remedy the position in- which the Wairarapa Association was placed as the result of the Royal Show dates clashing with the Carterton dates. He urged all members to give the utmost support to the Wairarapa Show this year.