POULTRY, PIGEONS AND CANARIES

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 57, 1 December 1923, Page 24

POULTRY, PIGEONS AND CANARIES

« CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR 1924. Championships for 1924 have been allotted as follow by the council of the North Island Poultry, Pigeon and Canary Association : —- New Plymouth Winter Show. —Indian Runner drake; Indian Runner duck; W. homer pigeon male (distance classes only); W. homer pigeon female (distance classes only), fantail pigeon (any sex C.O.)'; African owl pigeon (any sex C. 0.); Norwich yellow canary (any sex). Waikato Winter Show. —Utility B. Leghorn, male; utility B. Leghorn, female; Columbian Wyandotte, male and female, C. 0.; working homer pigeon, male (coloured classes only); working homer pigeon, female (working classes only). Hawera Winter Show.—Silver Wyandottes, male and female; English White Leghorns, male and female. _ _ Wairoa Poultry Society.—Utility White Wyandottes, male and. female. Poverty Bay Poultry Association.— Utility Rhode Island Reds, male ana female; Tumbler pigeons, any sex, C. 0.; Norwich buff canary, any sex. Whangarei Winter Show.—Orpington, utility black, male and female ; utility Silver Wyandottes, male and female. Palmerston North Winter Show.—English B. Leghorns, male and female; bantams, game, male and female; magpie pigeons, any sex, C. 0.; Yorkshire yellow canary, A.S.; white Rhode Island, male and female. To Puke Winter Show.—Utility Black Minorcas, C. 0., male; utility Black Minorcas, female. (C. 0. certificate only; others 10s. 6d. and certificate.) Onehunga Poultry Club. —Orpingtons, black, male and lemale; bantam, black rose comb, male and female, C. 0.; Dragoon pigeon, any sex. C. 0.; English owl pigeon, any sex, C.O-; canary, Norwich, crest bred, any sex; canarv, Norwich, crested, any sex. Pukekohe Poultry Show.—Wyandotte, white, male and female; bantam, Pekin A.C., male and female; utility white Indian Runner, male and female, C.O. Levin Poultry Society.—Game, Old English, male and female; utility White Leghorn, male and female. Ngaruawaliia Poultry Club. —Plymouth Rocks, white, male and female; duck, Buff Orpington, riiale and female. Huntly Poultry Club.—Rhode Island Red, single or rose comb, male and female; duck, Pekin, male and female, C.O.

Taihapo Poultry Society.—Minorcas, black, male and female. Auckland Poultry Society.—American White Leghorns, male and female; Partridge Wyandottes, male and female ; white Indian Runner drake and duck, C.O. Wanganui Poultry Society.—Barred Plymouth Rocks, male and female; Golden "Wyandottes, male and female.