Auckland Best Group In Export Lamb Contest

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31030, 9 April 1966, Page 20

Auckland Best Group In Export Lamb Contest

(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 8. The Meat Board has received from London results of the 1965-66 season’s export lamb competition. Awards were:— North Island Best district group: Auckland 1, Manawatu 2, Southern Hawke's Bay 3. Best individual pens: Manawatu No. 1222 (W. Lynch, Sanson) 1: Auckland No. 19 (W. M. Carter, Waerenga) 2: Southern Hawke’s Bay No. 2 (J. A. Gunson, Dannevirke) 3. South Island Best district group: South Canterbury 1. Mid-Canterbury 2, Nelson 3. Best individual pens: MidCanterbury No. 57 (D. M. Smith, Ashburton) 1; South Canterbury No. 44 (A. G. McFarlane, Waimate)2: Nelson No. 30 (V. H. Moore, Spring Grove) 3. The first three pens in each district are:— Marlborough: No. 84, est. L. H. Clouston 1; No. 83, est. L.

'H. Clouston 2; No. 35, H. G R. Wratt 3.

Nelson: No. 30, V. H. Moore 1: No. 87, W. R. Irvine 2; No. 68, Ross L. Higgins 3. North Canterbury: No. 92, P. T. Johnston 1: No. 17, J. McL. Syme 2; No. 73 D. Lang 3. Mid-Canterbury: No. 57/8, D. M. Smith 1; No. 17/18, G. G. Donaldson 2; No. 44/3, R. Read 3. North Otago: No. 35/6, A. Cuthbertson 1; No. 83/4, C. A. Gibson 2; No. 64, G. D. Gillies 3. South Canterbury: No. 44, A. G. McFarlane 1; No. 40, G. A. Stevens and Son 2; No. 13, C. G. Chittock 3.

Mid-Otago: No. 42, R. C. Heenan 1; No. 75, M. R. Thompson 2; No. 22, J. I. Nichol 3.