Woman Again Succeeds In Bacon Competition

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30804, 16 July 1965, Page 17

Woman Again Succeeds In Bacon Competition

One of the few women who entered the Canterbury-West Coast bacon competition. Mrs J Bassett, of Oxford, achieved another notable success in the annual event held yesterday at the Belfast works of the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company, Ltd. For the second successive vear Mrs Bassett won both the Pig Marketing Association’s Rosebowl, judged on prolifacy, growth rate, and carcases quality and the Peerless Weaner Grower Cup for the heaviest litter at eight weeks old. Mrs Bassett also took second place in the P.M.A. Rosebowi class I ast year she tied for first place in the P.M.A. Rosebowl section with E. A. Bennett, and she also won the Peerless Cup and was second in the Green’s Challenge Cup. Entries in this year’s competition totalled 83 —17 below last year’s figure and 35 below the 1963 entries. Competitors were from Canterbury, the We7t Coast, and Rai Valley. One reason for the lower entries was that there had been considerably more on-the-farm buying this year, said one of the judges. Mr J. Graham, who is advisory officer to the South Island Pig Council. , . ... All careases entered in this year’s competition were up to a very high standard and

> showed an improvement in t the quality of recent years. s J Emphasis was now on lean - meat. Mr Graham said, and ’ this year the competition had • achieved its aim in this field, f There were very few overfat t carcases, and the factor which caused the most loss of points e in the competition was weight i suitability. The desired weight s was between 1261 b and 1401 b . dressed, but a small propor- - tion of the entries were penalr ised because they were under t weight 5 Judging with Mr Graham 8 were Messrs E. Bell, a supervising grader of the New Zeat land Meat Producers’ Board. 1 and R. S. Raines, senior meat - inspector of the Department s of Agriculture, Christchurch. s Results of the competition were:— ? Green’s Challenge Cup.—K. ? D Jones (Karamea). 83 s points 1; C. Wheeler (Sefton), > 81, 2; D. Morland (Cust), 79, 3. * r Pig Marketing Association j Rose Bowl.—Mrs J. Bassett . (Oxford) 129 points 1 and 125 2; E. Bennett (Ohoka), '121’3. . Peerless Weaner Grower z Cup —Mrs J- Bassett (Oxford), 13 pigs, 6831 b at eight weeks, s 1- J. Abernethy (Marshland), >lO pigs 4881 b. 2; c Bennett i 1 (Ohoka), 10 pigs, 4141 b, 3.