POULTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 171, 7 April 1923, Page 3

POULTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS

BY TEbEGE- 4 ™. — Press association. Nelson, April 6The Board of Management of the New Zealand Poultry Championship Association met to-day. The Masterton Club’s application for affiliation was granted, the show dates being July 13 and 14. . The standard schedule was revised. It will be issued in due course. The ballot for championships resutled as follows : — Wellington, No. 1 Group. Modern game, fancy Wyandottes (silver, gold, or partridge), utility Myandotte, magpies, Norwich canary N.C. led. Masterton, No. 2 Group.—damburgs, utility Leghorns., fancy Butt Orpingtons, owls, Japanese bantanis. Blenheim. No. 3 Group.—American brown Leghorns, utility and fancy Rhode Island reds, Oriental frills, black rosecomb bantams. Nelson, No. 4 Group.—Fancy and Utility Orpingtons, tumblers, O.E. game bantanis, mules. Hastings, No. 5 Group.—English Lephorns, fancy Minorcas, fantails, Pekin bantanis, Norwich crested or crest-bred canaries. Woodville, No. 6 Group.—O.E. game, fanev white Wyandottes, American white Leghorns, dragoons, modern game, bantams. Napier, No. 7 Group—Fancy and utility, Plymouth Rocks, Anconas, homers, Yorkshire canary N.C. fed. The ballot for cat championships resulted in Wellington’s b&ng allotted Persian males, and Hastings Peisian females.