DAIRY SHOW

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 150, 25 June 1912, Page 8

DAIRY SHOW

■ AT PALMERSTON NORTH Advance on previous years. feT XILJEGBAPH — KMSCIAI, TO THB TOST.J ; PALMERSTON, This Day. 4 Tfae National Dairy Show was opened ija. fine weather by His Excellency the Governor at noon to-day. There was a large attendance. j. In every respect the show* represents Ma advance on those of previous years, especially in regard to the machinery Exhibits. The butter and cheese- exfeibite are very fine. * The judging of butter and cheese was <arried out by the grading staff of the Department of Agriculture, under the direction of Mr. D. Cuddle, Dairy Comjtoflßkmer. The Cheltenham Dairy Comgany, 190 points, carried off the chamgkmship; Apiti, 189j points, being second; and Bell Block and Lepperton, $87 each, third. The following is the fist of prize-winners i — Class 1. — Best box of export butter (carries special challenge cup presented tey Messrs. Weddell and Co., London) — (•Hen Oroua Dairy Company, 95£ points, l<; Cheltenham, 95, Z * Class 2. — Best box of export butter, dpen»to any butter factory or factory manager not having won a prize of the *kiue of £s—Awahuri5 — Awahuri Dairy Company jjjid MaurioevHle Dairy Company, 94 jwintfi each, 1 ; Hawkfis Bay Dairy Company, 93£ pointe, 3. "Class 3. — Best box of export bnttei, open to factory managers who have not previously won a prize at a national show— Bell Block Dairy Company, 94 pointe, 1; Kaponga, 93£, 2; Hawkes Bay. 93, 3. Class 4. — Best, box of export buter, open to members only of the New Zealand Dairy Factory Managene' Association. — Cheltenham Dairy Factory, 95 ' points, 1 ; Raetihi, 94£ points, 2 ; Taderi and Peninsular, 94, 3. Class 5. — Best box (561bs)dOf export factory butter manufactured afc^the factory of the exhibitor ; special' prize, the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's challenge cup— Mauriceville Dairy Company, 95 points, 1 ; Taihape, 94£, 2 j Bell Block, 94, 3. " Claes 6, which with class 1 counts, for the Championship. — Apiti Dairy Company and Cheltenham, 95 points each, 1 ; Kairanga, 94|. 3. „Cheese championship of New,-Zealand, nnder the auspices of the New Zealand Dairy Factory Managers' Association, for beet three cases of full cream ched-dar-shaped cheese, white and coloured. — Kaponga Dairy Company's Rowan' Factory, 280 points, 1; Tariki, 279|',' 2; Kaponga, 276, 3,