SOUTH OTAGO NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 25995, 9 January 1947, Page 6

SOUTH OTAGO NOTES

(From Our Correspondent.) PERSONAL. Mr George Madigan, who died; in Dunedin on Monday in his sixtyrfirst year, was well known in Balclutha about 30 years ago, being in business here as a hairdresser ana tobacconist. On leaving,Balclutha he went to Dunedin and for years was proprietor of a business in Caversham, prior to commencing in- Rattray street. He; is survived by his wife, three sons and a daughter. ■ FAT LAMB COMPETITION.

At a meetiug of the Sheep Committee of the Clutha and Matau A. and P. Society on Monday night it was decided to cancel the fat lamb competition for which prizes had been donated by the directors of the South Otago Freezing Company. Owing to the backward season little interest was shown by farmers in the competition and rather than have poor quality lambs in the competition it was considered, it. would be better to cancel it this year. A letter was received from the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board intimating that when the conditions for next year’s competition were being drawn up consideration would be given to extending ■ the date of closing the entries from South Otago to January. bowling:

The semi-final and final of the pairs competition conducted by Stirling Club last Saturday which had to be postponed owing to rain were played on Stirling green on Tuesday night before a large gallery of interested spectators. In the semi-final W. H. Nelson and J. McDonald (Balclutha) were defeated by W. Sutherland and L. J. Edwards (Balclutha) by nine to eight, the winners being two down with one end to play. In the final between Edwards and G. Baird and A. Botting (Stirling) the scores were level on two or three occasions, and with one end to play the Stirling pair were one up. Balclutha scored the necessary two points to win on the last end and thus won the tournament. FREEZING WORKS OPEN.

The South Otago freezing works opened for the season on Tuesday when about 900 lambs were put through, a similar number bping handled on Wednesday. Considering the _ very backward season the quality is reported to be very fair. About 21 butchers are at present engaged, several still being employed on shearing, while the North Island butchers have not yet arrived. It is not expected that the works will be very busy for a week or two yet, as .the cold, unseasonable weather is having a detrimental effect on the lambs. The position regarding general labour is better than was anticipated and the South Otago works appear to be better off in this respect than some other centres.