NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 141, 17 June 1929, Page 5

NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW.

RECORD BUTTER ENTRIES

CHAMPIONSHIP AWARDS

BATA WINS AGGREGATE

(By Telegraph.—rress Association.)

PALMEESTON NORTH, this day.

An unprecedented number of entries has been received in the butter classes of exhibits at the National Dairy Show, which opens to-morrow. T7ie judges comment that the butters have undergone a hard test, having been subjected to three months' storage, but it is pleasing to them to find that, with few exceptions, the quality was maintained well, and the butter opened up as fresh as the day it went into cool storage. Results of the judging follow: —

Championship of New Zealand (aggregate points). —Eata, points, 1; Eangivvahia-Euahine, 189, 2; Eongotea and Te Awamutu (equal), V lßßJ, 3.

Gold Medals.—Wellington and Hawke's Bay Provinces: Eata, 379* points. South Island: Canterbury Central, 370 points. Auckland: Te Awamutu, 373-J

points. Box of Butter, salted, suitable for export—Eata, 90, 1; Eongotea, 95*, 2; Canterbury Central, 95, 3. Box of Butter, in pats, for local trade. —Eata, 95A, 1; Eongotea, 95, 2; Levin, 94£, 3. Box of Butter, suitable for export.— Awahuri, 96, 1; United, 95i, 2; Centra], 95, 3.

Box of Export Butter (open to members of the Factory Managers' Association). —Awahuri and Eongotea (equal), 95A, 1; Mauriceville, 95, 3.

Box of Export Butter, from bulk. — Apiti, 951, 1; Wangaehu, 95, 2; Katikati, 94A, 3. Championship of New Zealand (exhibits in classes one to six). —EangiwahiaEuahine, 95*, 1; Karamea and Te Awamutu (equal), 95 2.

Box of Butter (from factories receiving home-separated cream only). — Levin, 95 J, 1; Karamea, 95, 2; Golden Bay, 94*, 3. Box of Butter (made by buttermaker or manager's first assistant). —Karamea, 95-1, 1; Rangiwahia-Ruahine, 95, 2; Golden Coast and Wangaehu (equal), 94, 3. .

Box of Butter (unsalted). —United, 95 J, 1; Levin, 95, 2; Eata and Eongotea (equal), 94} 3. Bo< of Butter (open to makers who have never won a first prize previously at national sliows). —Te Awamutu, 95*, 1; Bongotea, 95, 2; Golden Bay and Wairoa (equal), 94, 3. Box of butter (open to buttermakers or first assistants, local trade, in pats). —Wairoa, 95, 1; Eangiwahia, 94A, 2; Konini, 94, 3.

Butter (made with special dairy salt). —Eata, 95-J, 1; Golden Coast, 95, 2; United, 94£, ~3.