CATTLE-BREEDERS MEET

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 91, 18 April 1921, Page 8

CATTLE-BREEDERS MEET

ALLEGED ALTERATION OF CALV-

ING DATES.

(II MLIQRAPH.— PRBSS ASSOCIATION.)

HASTINGS, This Day.

A special meeting of the council of the Aberdeen-Ang'is Cattle Breeders' Association discussed the action of a member in altering the calving dates on three official pedigree certificates of imported cattle, and unanimously decided :-^(l) That the principal A. and P. societies of the Dominion be informed of tho circumstances, and that the council recommends societies that no one of the three beasts in question bo allowed to compete or exhibit in any show ring in the Dominion for,- say, three years from the date hereof, and that prize moneys and trophies won by the said member be returned by him to the societies concerned (Hastings, Dannevirke, and Palmerston North), and that the prizes be allotted to those next in order of merit; (2) that steps be taken to have the member's name removed from the official list of judges of Aberdeen-Angus stock; (3) that the Home authorities be advised of tho council's decision; (4) that the said member's membership of the association be suspended pending receipt of a report from the Home authorities as to whether this suspension should last for a fixed period, say, five years, or whether the member 'should be disqualified for life.