WHANGAREI JERSEY CLUB

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 165, 15 July 1941, Page 8

WHANGAREI JERSEY CLUB

ANNUAL BULL SALE

(0.C.) WHANGAREI, this day. To The <j e i ire of the Whangarei Jersey Club to have an independent ground on which to hold its annual sale was expressed by members at the annual meeting of the club yesterday. The question of venue for the annual bull sale was before the meeting and a letter was received from an auctioneering firm offering the use of saleyards at Kamo as last year, when the event was transferred owing to Kensington Park being in use as a military camp. Mr J. A. Stevens said the sale was a flub event and it should be a club the.club was indebted l« e T^ rm - f 2 r lts assistance last ™™ I anmdependent ground was procurable it would be better from the point of view of the club The matter was referred to the committee which was recommended to hold the sale on September 26, with entries closing on August 23, and the draw for places on the catalogue on August 25. J

Reporting on the annual meeting of the Jersey Cattle Breeders' Association, Mr. Stevens spoke of the proposal to increase subscriptions to the association to include the herd book The breeder in a small way of business worked on extended pedigrees and the herd book was of little use to him, he said, in moving that the club should write to the Northern ward representative on the associaJJS 1 ' i*£- \-- R - Begg - and express the club s objection to loading everv member with a herd book.

AT Of^?f r ? e if cted wer e:—President, ' wr' pc I Morrison : vice-president, Mi. R. Sanderson; committee, Messrs Morrison, Sanderson, Stevens H E Johnson, R J. Duddy, R. W. Johnson] tr. McLachlan; secretary Mr C P Butler; auditor. Mr. C. A. Wilson ' The club decided to write to the New Zealand Jersey Cattle BreedersAssociation emphasising the seriousness of the withdrawal of manpower from pedigree farms.