STUD SHEEP.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 206, 31 August 1936, Page 4

STUD SHEEP.

INTERNATIONAL HONOURS. DOMINION AT PALERMO. CORRIEDALES' GREAT SUCCESS. Last June a collection of pedigree slieep of various breeds was dispatched from New Zealand to compete at the international live stock show being held at Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The annual show at Palermo, conducted by the Argentine Rural Society, is one. of the largest and most comprehensive in the world, but competition is limited to stock bred and grown in that country. Each four years, however, when the international show is held, competition is onen to the world. Many years,?ag<? the late Ernest Short' exhibited some of liis Parorangi Romneys there, and in 102-1 both sheep and cattle from New Zealand were exhibited with considerable success.

Messrs. Wright, Stephenson and Company, Limited, who were responsible in conjunction with several of the New Zealand breed societies for the New Zealand representation in 1924, also arranged the selection and transit of a good representation of New Zealand sheet}, breeds which competed at the show held this month in Palermo. They have now received advice that, although their, representation was a small one, it was phenomenally successful, the Corriedales in particular sweeping the board of all the leading honours. As New Zealand Corriedales have a good name in South America, this outstanding success will prove a great advertisement. Messrs! Wright, Stephenson and Company, Limited's representatives of this breed were selected from the well-known Bushcy Park Estate, Palmerston South. It was a ram bred on this estate by the late J. A. Johnstone which won the grand championship in 1924. On this occasion, however, representatives from the Busliey Park Estate won both the grand championship and reserve grand championship in rams with the only two sent, and also won similar honours in the ewe section. Although it was first planned to send quite a number of Komne.vs, Messrs. Wright, Stephenson and Company, Limited, sent only one sheep of this breed to compete, and this ram, a one-shear from the well-known Alloa floclc of Mr. Quentin Donald. Featherstone, won his class and secured the reserve grand championship. Honours in Lincolns were also won by the large representation of this breed made from the Dominion, the New Zealand Lincolns being particularly popular in the Argentine. The grand championship was won by a ram bred by Mr. "VNJm. Rayner, of The Firs, Masterton, and other awards were gained by rams bred by Mr. EricWilton, of Rangitumau, Masterton. The winning of three grand championships and three reserve grand championships in three different breeds is a particularly notable achievement and reflects credit on the Dominion's flock masters.