NORTH ISLAND LAMB

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 55, 7 March 1939, Page 4

NORTH ISLAND LAMB

SMITHFIELD COMPETITION

(By Air Mail, from "The Post's" Londoß Representative.)

LONDON, February 7. "A .collection of excellent; lambs" was the of the. three judges who selected the .winners of the North. Island ,larftb competition atSmithfield last week at the request of the Imported Meat Trade Association. From entries by. eleven1' districts they were asked to select the bes>t: 'district display, the best'three pens from each district, and.Jthevbest ;thfeeyjpens in the ■competition.;.-1 (■' o >I;*^-~:■;■;» V ; •..' \ r . As ■already:"; -reported,-the judges, Mes^^^^^o&^^ and C.;Woojd#afd, aw£as(^::^irai%g|. the best district, entry; fand^^ikatb tha best, individual pen./ V.."; -• S "We did not consider that tlje displays as a whole, came up: todtfrefhigh standard now expected of this competition/ said the:' judges in>;their>ieport to the New Zealand;.Meat*Prbducers' Board. They :addedj'ffiaf:tnany;; individual lambswere inclined;"to. b^heavy with an : excels of across the docks arid-=backs.;;;-.;-^Ss:.was regarded by butchers- <as: "an^:tineconomic proposition" ; '_':[ ; ■ : : 'i . "Fat in excess, especially oh; the loins," the judges explained, fitable to the retailer. It mearts'a'good deal of /trimming, for- which; he receives practically no return;''- ? ! Commenting on Wairarapa's entry, thevrepopt said-thatl it-was' "a grand exhibit of well^-buiit-iup lambs of splendid quality ahd v condition;* with short, plump legs and'shoulbl^rs;; and; level backs." The lambs■ were;^yery; :; ;useful butchers' meat." There, was rib;' hesitation in awarding the competition i shield to the district.; .;■■..:-

Feilding's was a good run, ; an.d the lambs were fleshy and well .proportioned. They were good butchers' meat and slightly superiorVtb Waikato'g, who entered, a weli-selected , group, with well built up carcasses arid':a|minimum of waste: fat>; Waikator: entered three perfect lambs, and;oS;so-high a standard that this district was awarded the prize for the best pen. Feilding came second and Wairarapa third itt this competition.