Halswell Lamb Wins Cuts Competition

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31211, 8 November 1966, Page 16

Halswell Lamb Wins Cuts Competition

Lambs from Halswell, Ladbrooks, and Greenpark took the honours in the national lamb-cuts competition of the New Zealand Federation of Young Farmers’ Clubs held at the Belfast works of the Canterbury Frozen Meat Ltd., yesterday'. The competition is held in the centre where the Royal show is being conducted.

The competition attracted | 59 entries almost excusivelyl from North Canterbury. The lambs were judged on the hoof and on the hooks last Friday, and one side from a lamb selected by the judges from each young farmer’s entry was judged in cut form yesterday, according to the standards for judging primal lamb cuts drawn up by a committee set up by the Meat Board. Fortyseven sides were cut.

Mr E. Bell, a supervising grader of the Meat Board who was one of the three judges who reviewed the competition lambs on the

hooks and then judged the cuts, said that the effect of the cuts judging was to bring out the ideal lamb with the ideal covering.

The cup given by the Meat Board for the competition was won by J. Coakley, of Sabys road, Halswell, with a Southdown Romney cross lamb weighing 341 b which scored 161.4 points. Mr Coakley belongs to the Ladbrooks Young Farmers’ Club. Second place went to F. Redmond, of Ladbrooks, with a Ryeland Romney lamb weighing 341 b. Mr Redmond also belongs to the Ladbrooks club. His cuts scored 160.9 points. In third place was A. G. Dunlop, of Greenpark, a member of the Waihora Young Farmers’ Club, whose Dorset Horn Romney cross lamb weighing 301 b returned 150.4 points. Congratulated

Mr Bell, who was assisted in the cuts and hooks judging by Mr S. Parker, another supervising grader of the Meat Board, and Mr C. Shaskey, supervising grader for the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company, said that the competition had been a very good one. There was only one over-fat lamb, and two or three second-grade lambs. Mr A. C. Wright, a member of the Meat Board, who presented the board’s cup to Mr Coakley, said that more than a million lambs had been exported in cuts form in each of the last two seasons.

Placings in other sections of the competition were:— On the hoof (judged by Mr W. L. Dawber, a drafter of the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company): A. Guy (ScargillOmihi) 1, D. Asquith (Waihora) 2, W. W. N. Judd (Sheffield) 3. On hooks: F. Redmond (Ladbrooks) 1, Miss A. Hislop (Amberley Country Girls’ Club) 2, A. Guy (ScargillOmihi) 3.

The judging on the hoof was for the best pen of three, and an entry of A. Guy was also selected as the best individual carcase on the hoof. In the hooks section, where single lambs were judged, lambs entered by A. G. Dunlop were picked as the best three on the hooks.