SOUTHDOWN SOCIETY

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31215, 12 November 1966, Page 22

SOUTHDOWN SOCIETY

Recording Scheme Next Year

A national recording scheme, to be introduced next August, would provide useful information about gross performances of sheep for breeders, the annual meeting of the Southdown Sheep Society of New Zealand was told on Thursday evening.

The director of the national flock and herd recording scheme (Mr E. A. Clarke) also told the society that the object of the scheme was to provide breeders with an index of animal value in commercial terms. Not as much was known about the Southdown breed as the Romney, but this scheme would certainly help to correct this. Mr Clarke said that all the information obtained from breeders would be kept strictly confidential. Concern was expressed by some members that too often research institutions published information on experiments and trials before they were completed. Officers were elected as folows:— president, Mr A. Kirkpatrick (Gisborne); vice-presi-dents, Messrs J. Petrie (Rangiora) and W. J. MacLeod (Fielding); council, Messrs J. H. Bartlett (Kiwitea), W. Blair (Eltham), T. E. Brooks (Brookside), J. Campbell (Otautau), D. R. Crooks (Waipukurau), N. Early (Ashburton), S. E. Holroyd (Invercargill), K. Landridge (Sneddon), L. G. Mac Kay (Gore), G. S. McLeod (Martinborough), H. W. Pannett (Clydevale), O. R. Self (Papatoetoe), and A. C. Vile (Marton).

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