EXPORT LAMBS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 71, Issue 55, 14 December 1950, Page 5

EXPORT LAMBS

MID-CANTERBURY COMPETITION

With entries totalling 154, compared with only 133 last year, the Mid-Canterbury district competition in export lambs was held at Fairfield works to-day. Despite unfavourable weather, there was a very large attendance of farmers and others interested.

Apart from the South Island awards for the> best district displays and the competition for the best individual pens, judged in London, there were a number of prizes awarded on completion of killing this afternoon. These included five prizes for lambs killed and dressed on the hooks, the Canterbury F.M. and Dairy Produce Export Co.’s challenge cup for the best pen of lambs, the Lyttelton Harbour Board challenge cup for the best two pens of lambs from the one exhibitor, the Ashburton A. and P. Association challenge cup to the drafter of the winning pen of lambs, and a cup from an anonymous donor for the best individual lamb, judged on the hooks. The competition is run under the auspices of the Ashburton A. and P. Association, and the arrangements for killing, etc., are handled by the company which also stages a number of exhibits attracting keen interest from visitors. These included types of wool, and also dressed carcases of different breeds, illustrating the great difference in the type of meat produced.

All visitors were guests of the company at luncheon, morning and afternoon tea. Speakers at the luncheon .included Messrs D. S. Studholme (president of the Ashburton A. and P. Association), H. M. Copland (chairman of the sheep committee), R. G. Gerald, M.P., J. Deans (chairman of the company) and G. H. Grigg (Meat Producers’ Board). Awards were announced at afternoon tea and the prizes were presented by representatives of the Methven and Mayfield A. and P. Association.s