LITTLE RIVER LAMB AND EWE FAIR.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LXXXV, Issue 3925, 12 March 1920, Page 2

LITTLE RIVER LAMB AND EWE FAIR.

ANNUAL PENINSULA SHISEP SALE. The date fixed for the annual lamb •:iml ewe fair at Messrs H. Matson aud Co.'s central salcyards, Little 1 River, is Tuesday, March 23rd. As this sale is practically; the only sheep ibalo held on Banks Peninsula through I out the year it is only right that lit should receive the ready support of everyone in the district It has been wisely- argued many times that I.her , - , t-hould i> c monthly or bimonthly simep sales on Banks Pen-. nuulu as Peninsula bred sheep I would be exchanged in the district , instead of sheep farmers having to i draw upon Addinglon Yards to keep up their /lucks It would also create ' a greater interest in sheep breeding I in the district. However, the annual 1 Fair at Little River should be I retained on its present basis of a i particularly interesting' sale to all Peninsula farmers, and those who have sheep to buy or soil should see iliafc thr-v supiJwit it to Iho of ' their endeavours. Peninsula bred 1 sheep have the constitution that I Plains sheep do not have coming on jto this country, and the buyers know what they are getting The - different firms operating in the dis- • Irict now receiving entries for the sheep have the constitution that Fair on March 23rd, and it is to be hoped the sale will eclipse nil its predecessors.