PUPPY STAKES WORTH £l00

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30287, 13 November 1963, Page 27

PUPPY STAKES WORTH £l00

STL’D PREPARATION: Photographs show the cycle of preparing stud sheep for showing on Mr J. R. Little's Corriedale stud at Hui Hui. In the two top photographs Mr Little and his stud shepherd, Mr A. Beaton, study the pedigrees of the sheep in the large, complex filing system on the farm. In the other, they inspect the show rams in the shed. The two lower photographs show the opening of the fleece, with the ram’s head held in a bail, and Mr Beaton inspecting shorn rams in the paddock. The inset shows Mr Little and Mr Beaton teasing the locks of wool on a ram’s head.

This year’s feature event at the Canterbury Kennel Association Show is the Canterbury £ 100 Puppy Stakes, the richest event of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere. It will be judged on the second day of the Show. An all-breeds judge from Australia, Mr W. J. Wheatland, of Victoria, will judge more than 300 dogs at the show. Mr Wheatland previously judged a show in Canterbury in 1954. He is a well known and prominent judge in Australia, having judged at all major shows

there and some overseas ones as well. He is also a well known breeder of the Boxer and was the first person to import the breed into Australia. The Canterbury Kennel Association has an interesting career. It came into being early in the present century, when the old Christchurch Kennel Club went into liquidation. One of the foundation members, Mr T. Richmond, is still alive. With three others he called the original meeting in 1905 which was held in the Square on the site of the

present Regent theatre. The first show of this club was held in Hagley park under canvas during Exhibition year. Other shows were held in what used to be the Colisium, now Regent street, and also in an old theatre in Gloucester street where the dogs were walked up and down the street. The club then moved to the Show Grounds and shows were held in a building just inside the gate. The club has held shows in the present building for a little more than 50 years.

The New Zealand Kennel Club was first founded in Christchurch on November 5, 1886, with Mr J. F. Kimbell as its first president; Colonel Bailey as vice-president, Mr T. H. Richley, secretary; Mr W. Wark, treasurer and with the executive comprising Messrs E. F. Dombrain, Mr R. E. Twopenny, (Christ church), R. Mowat (Wellington) and J. Weymouth (Auckland). The first show held in Christchurch of which any record exists was held in 1887 under English Kennel