STOCK STUD DEPARTMENT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 January 1939, Page 3

STOCK STUD DEPARTMENT

j MESSRS DALGETY AND COMPANY. APPOINTMENT OF MANAGER. It will be of interest to the stud stock breeders of the Dominion to know that Messrs Dalgety and Company, Ltd, have appointed Mr Ernest St C. Haydon, of Canterbury, to the management of their Stud Stock Department. Mr Haydon was born in Canterbury, being the son of the late Mr Joseph Haydon, Virginia Country, Harwarden, and educated at Cook’s School, Christchurch, and the Wanganui Collegiate School. He left this country at the age of 19 years for the Argentine Republic, where he farmed his own properties for some 20 years. He became well-known as an expert sheep breeder and farmer and with importations from New Zealand to the Argentine of Corriedales, he established the first stud of that breed in South America, it being No 1 in the F.B.A. Mr Haydon also had a Lincoln Stud, F.B.A. No 101, and one of the most successful flocks of Romney Marsh (F.B.A. 14). The above, together with Mr Haydon’s Shire horses and Middle White pigs, won over 200 medals and cups for his Kia Ora Stud at the leading South American shows. One of the principal success was the winning outright of the Newton Cup for the best' Romney Marsh ram bred in the Argentine, and the winning on two occasions of the Shire Horse Society of Great Britain’s medal for the best Shire bred in the Argentine. In 1924 Mr Haydon disposed of his South American holdings, and the direct descendants of his stud flocks are still the leading prize winners in South America. Mr Haydon then purchased a property at Tenterden, Kent, England, which he held for five years and each year going to South America with stud stock purchased by him in England for realisation in Buenos Aires and Monte Video. In 1928 Mr Haydon returned to NewZealand, and purchased a property close to Napier, and which he farmed for five years, afterwards moving to Methven, Canterbury.

His experience of judging at shows is quite unique. In England he judged on four occasions at the Ashford Show and Sales, which is the leading show for Romney Marsh sheep in England. He has judged at all the leading shows of the Argentine, Uruguay and Chile. On two occasions he was appointed as a special delegate and judge by the Society Rural Argentina to the Punta Arenas Show, Chile, also to the Salta Show and the Royal Show at Monte Video. In 1937 Mr Haydon received an invitation from the Society Rural Argentina to go over from this country to judge the Lincoln, Romney Marsh, Corriedale and South Down classes at thegreat Palermo Show held in Buenos Aires. They repeated this request again last year, when Mr Haydon again went to the Argentine to judge the sheep classes at that important fixture. It is the only time in history that a judge from abroad has been honoured by being invited to judge in two successive years, although judges from England have been taken out there for the second time after a space of years. After finishing his duties at the Argentine Show last August, Mr Haydon went on to England, where he visite'd several of the leading flocks of different breeds and renewed acquaintances with his many friends in that country.