WAIRARAPA SHOW

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 104, 30 October 1933, Page 7

WAIRARAPA SHOW

The weigbt-guessing competition at th« Wairarapa Show resulted as follows:—

Bullock Correct weight, 074541b.—Adam Montgoinerie (Greytown) 9751b, J. I>. Donovan (Masterion) 9751b, Joe Udy (Carterton) 0751b; T. Russell (Upper Hutti 974%1b, equal, divide first, second, aud third prizes; sheep (correct weight 225%1b), R. G. Kemble (Carterton) 2251b, Miss Jean Percy (To Ore Ore, Maeterton) 2251b, equal, divide first and second prizes; pig (correct weight 312%1b), Neil Jensen (Carterton) 312%1b, Gwenda Barber 3121b, Mrs. S. A. Printon 3121b, equal, divide first and second prizes. The result of the Wellington judging on the hooks of the London fat lamb class is as follows:— Pen 780.—McKenzie Estate (Featherston), 1 (unplaced at show); Pen 801— J. Johnson (Gladstone), 2 (unplaced ' at show). Pen 778—0; Jensen, 3 (third at show) Pen 786— N. and O. Skeet (Papawai), 4 (fourth at show). Pen 789-^-H. Morison (Greytown), 8 (unplaced at show). Pen 803—W Howard Booth (Carterton), 6 (unplaced at show).

The "line" at Greenwich Is not much Ito look at—just a diagonal band of stone acrosss a path with a score along its centre—and most people would pass it "by without a second glance. But it is reall.r one of the moet interesting things in th« world—the supreme proof of Britain* «•• knowledged leadership t»n the sea.