POULTRY, PIGEON, CANARY AND CAT CLUB

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22419, 4 June 1938, Page 24

POULTRY, PIGEON, CANARY AND CAT CLUB

■ * FURTHER SPECIAL AWARDS Points prizes and further special awards st the seventy-first annual show of the Christchurch Poultry, Pigeon, Canary, and Cat Club were announced yesterday as follows: — _ Points Prizes —Old English Game, male birds, R. H. Johnson: females. G. Biltcliff: young birds, R. H. Johnson; Leghorn and Minorcas. open, W. Cummings; Findlay prize, open poultry classes, W. Cummings; Findlay - prize, woman exhibitor, Mrs A. Allred; Hounsell cup, utility Rhode Island Reds, F. G. Hansen: Cussen cup for utility section, R. Pearce; Bradshaw prize, unsighted Norwich canaries, G. D. Gregory; Cook trophy, unflighted Norwich canaries. Mrs G. Hobbs; Thompson cup No. 2, Norwich canaries, Mrs G. Hobbs; Society of Cage Birds cup for Norwich canaries, Mrs G. Hobbs: club.cup for budgerigars. R. E. Mahan: Society of Cage Birds cup, R. E. Mahan. POULTRY Standard Classes Club cups in the poultry section were awarded as follows; — , Old English Game, black, red or light red cocker, or partridge, wheaten or clay pullet, R. H. Johnson: duckwing cockerel or pullet. G. Biltcliff; cockerel or pullet, other than Old English. F. T. Smith; Ancona cockerel or pullet, R. Pearce; Rhode Island Red cockerel or pullet, A. E. Hounsell. • Bantams Old English Game cockerel or pullet, H. McNeill; black rosecomb cockerel or pullet, J. H. B. Chegwin. Utility Classes White Leghorn cockerel or pullet, J. Bradley: Brown Leghorn cockerel or pullet, J. D. Gobbe; other than brown or white. C. H. Harman; Ancona cockerel or pullet, R. Pearce; Minorca cockerel or pullet, R. Mitchell; Wyandotte, C. H. Harman; best cockerel in utility heavy breeds. E. Wheeler; Orpington cockerel or pullet, E. Wheeler; Rhode Island Red cockerel or pullet, C. McKenzie; Australorp, F. G. Hanson. Ducks Drak or duck other than Indian Runner or Peking, W. A. Toon. Pigeons Frilled pigeon, ringed, M. A. Wilson; nun, T. W. Richmond: Whiteside cup. for Jacobins, M. A. Wilson: Pigeon Club’s cup for bird ringed 1937, other than broken colour, or muffed tumblers, frills or magpies, E. F. Stead; United Pigeon Club’s cups for magpie, ringed 1937, and fed or yellow tumblers, F. W. Archbold; championship for black tumbler, J. W. Green; other than black, T. W. Richmond; United Pigeon Club’s cup for white self tumbler, A. V. Le Roi; tumbler other than a self, G. H. Bradford; Reece special for baldhead tumbler, G. .H. Bradford; United Pigeon Club’s cup for fancy pigeon, ringed 1937, in junior classes, J. R. Nancarrow. Canaries Yorkshire, yellow, clear ticked, or variegated, M. P. Lynch; buff, W. Stephen; unflighted, A. E. North; Norwich, buff, clear ticked, or variegated, Mrs G. Hobbs; yellow, W. Crombie; flighted, other- than a yellow, buff, or colour fed, G. D. Gregory: best colour fed, G. D. Gregory; unflighted Norwich, clear ticked or variegated, C. V. Hack; best unflighted Norwich, C. V. Hack.