WAIROA LAMBS DO WELL IN COMPETITION

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22654, 3 June 1948, Page 8

WAIROA LAMBS DO WELL IN COMPETITION

(P.A.I WELLINGTON, June 3, The New Zealand Meal Board has received cabled advice from its British, representative of the results of judging in the United Kingdom of the 1947-48 season district fat lamb competition. The awards are: DISTRICT I AT LAMB COMPETITION North Island. —First and shield. Southern Hawke's Bay; second, North Auckland: third, Wairoa. South Island. —First and shield. Eastern Southland; second. North Canterbury; third Southland. HIST INDIVIDUAL PI NS North Island. —North Auckland, Pen No. 102. C. F. Jones, 1; Wairoa; Pee, No. 4, if. S. Findscn. 2: North Auckland. Pen No. 22. E. A. Cook. 8; South ern Hawke's Bay. Pen No. 58, ,1, F. S.vtne, 4: Wairoa, Pen No. 58 Humphry nayly, h.c. South Island.—Eastern Southland, Pen No. 19, 1). Dickie and Son. 1; .Southland, Pen No. 20. Kennedy Bros, 2; Mid Canterbury, Pen No. 155. R. J. Tnrbotton. 8; North Otago, Pen No. 81, \\. Malcoln, 4. The board reports that the individual placings in each district are coming to hand by airmail and should be availaole shortly. "A feature of (he results to hand is the close relationship of the awards in the United Kingdom with the on-hooks awards in the Dominion,” says the board. "Of the nine pens listed above, three were placed first in local judging four placed second, one placed third, and one placed fifth —a tribute' to the board's supervising meat graders, who did most of the on-hooks judging locally.”