JERSEY SHOW & SALE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 September 1940, Page 9

JERSEY SHOW & SALE

CHAMPIONS AT HAMILTON. MASTERTON BREEDER SUCCESSFUL. At the Eighteenth National Jersey Show and sale held at Claudelands, Hamilton, there was a very large and keen bench of buyers who were representative of most of the dairying districts of the North Island. There was a decided demand for quality and butterfat backed bulls, buyers realising that the rearing of more heifer calves definitely called for sires that were highly backed and bred with an assurance of improving production standards. The show held prior to the sale, saw the three times Royal Champion, Keeper’s Marquis, exhibited by Mr W. H. Jakins, Christchurch, awarded Grand Champion,' thus winning the Wright Stephenson Cup. The two-year-old championship wds won by Dr. G. Walker's (Whangarei) Beaulieu Gambeau. while the junior championship proved a dead-heat between Mr J. Jameson’s (Masterton) Tuhitarata Oxford Lark and Mr W. S. McEwen's (Cambridge) Craigknoll Design's Ajax. The cup for the best three yearlingbulls was won by Mr W. S. McEwen with Mr J. Jameson, second. The sale which was held by Messrs Wright Stephenson and Co., Ltd., was a record, the average over all being 57J guineas. The top price was 120 guineas; seven head sold for over 100 guineas, and thirty-three (over a third of the catalogue) sold for over 60 guineas. There were only two passings, and the sale was remarkable for the high standard of values throughout the complete offering of ninety-four head.

Among the sales were the following:—On a/c Dr. George Walker, Maunu. Whangarei. Beaulieu Gamboge Star to J. Jameson. Masterton, 82-Jgns. On a/c J. Jameson, Masterton: Tuhitarata Noble Aim to P. J. Pumphrey, Putaruru, 60gns.; Tuhitarata Oxford Baron to E. Sinclair, Cheltenham, 108 gns.; Tuhitarata Oxford Seal to Watson Bros., Wellsford, 75gns.; Tuhitarata Oxford Lark to Mrs J. R. Sheehan, Papakura, 115gns.