WANGANUI SHOW

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 November 1939, Page 8

WANGANUI SHOW

WAIRARAPA SUCCESSES. N.Z. CHILLED BEEF CHAMPIONSHIPS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WANGANUI, This Day. With more entries than 300 in excess of last year’s, the Wanganui A. and P. Association’s Centennial Show was opened on the racecourse yesterday in fine weather. The attendance was exceptionally good for a Jlrst day. Throughout the show a high standard of exhibits and organisation is in evidence, and this is just as noticeable in the live stock sections as in the home industries. A splendid array of cattle appeared before the judges, who spoke in the highest terms of the quality of the placed animals. Keen interest was taken in the chilled beef section, despite a decrease in entries. The Sir William Perry Rose Bowl, for the most outstanding Romney in the show, was won by A. L. Wheeler (Marion) with a ram over 18 months. The Romney open ewe championship was won by A. Brown and Sons (Kiwitea). A. L. Wheeler won the championship in the natural condition Romney ram class, and the reserve champion was entered by A T.. Hunter (Makirikiri). Wheeler also entered the natural condition ewe champion and reserve champion. . Other sheep championships were: — Southdown, open: Nelson Hughes (Maxwell), champion ram and ewe, and reserve champion ram and ewe.

Southdown, natural condition: Champion ram and reserve and champion ewe, Stanley Hughes (Maxwell); reserve champion ewe, C. Coleman and Sons (Bulls). In the flock hogget class Lindsay Bull (Hunterville.) secured the first three placings out of an entry of 16 pens; J. Campion (Waverley) was fourth. Fernie Bros. (No. 2 Line) did best in the fat sheep section, with J. Campion and Co. (Fordell) getting first place with three fat ewes and A. M. Caird (Wanganui) first place with three Down cross ewes. The meat and wool cup for the most outstanding beef beast in the show was awarded a Hereford yearling bull owned by J. Brice (Marton). D. G. Grant (Dannevirke), with a three-year-old Aberdeen Angus heifer, was run-ner-up, and a Shorthorn entered by D. J. Holden (Mangateretere) was placed third. In the fat cattle section A. McNab (Wanganui) won the points prize, a trophy awarded by Drapers’ Association. Other’cattle championships were: — Frlesians: Bull, M. J. Parker (Dalefield), champion and reserve. Cow. M. J. Parker, champion and reserve.

Ayrshires: Bull, W. Moore and Sons (Masterton); reserve champion, A. Hill and Son (Kopane). Cow. W. Moore and Son: reserve champion. A. Hill and Son. Jerseys: Bull. A. Horn and Sons lOhau); reserve champion, W. Riddell (Wangaehu). Cow. A. Horn and Son; reserve champion. W. Riddell. Good quality marked the horse section. in'which the principal prize-win-ners were Miss D. Bousfiekl (Waipukurau) and N. Campion (Turakina). T. D. Baker (Wanganui) won ’ the maiden hunters’ competition and the open leaping competition. The wire jump was won by IT. J. Cameron (Turakina).

The New Zealand chilled beef championship created a great deal of interest. and the placings of the first 10 animals on the hoof were a triumph for the Aberdeen Angus breed, which secured the first six places. The seventh went to an Aberdeen Angus-Shorthorn cross, the eighth to a Hereford, and the ninth and tenth to Aberdeen Angus. The placings were: D. G. Grant (Dannevirke), 1; K. Duncan (Hunterville), 2 and 3: Tautana Stud (Waipukurau), 4: J. Trotter (Dannevirke), 5; W. F. Alexander (Waverley), 6; J. Wyley and Sons (Fordell), 7; W. F. Alexander, 8; Tautana Stud, 9; K. Duncan, 10. These cattle will now be judged on hooks at Imlay, but because of the war ! and the cessation of the chilled beef trade they will not be judged at Smithfield, London, as has been the practice in the past. Mr S. S. Timbs, judge of the chilled beef championship, said that every year showed an improvement in quality, in-

dicating that farmers were getting to know the requirements of the English market. The animal placed first could not be faulted on the hoof as an outstanding chilled beef type.