STANDARD SET

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11453, 2 March 1931, Page 2

STANDARD SET

SHOAV EXHIBITS FOR JUDGING at; home. : , CRITICISM BY JUDGES. *

At . future shews staged by the Poverty Bay A. and P. Association, carcases 6f ‘ sheep or laUibs to : L'e judged 'in London must be up .to what the local judge considers a fit - standard before they''Will- he sent,, Horiie, This decision was arrived ’at by Saturday’s meeting of tho association general committee following the readmg of a letter from ' they Smithfield judeesy. who': VoicbcU sbnie. criticism of the "exhibits sent Home Hom.. last year’s" show.'’ ‘C . . , ‘ The cogent portions-of. the judges letter were as follows „•■■■ r “Wo . fail, to see where: you are doing the Gisborne district' justice by having such poor competition in, your mutton'class- AVc got- plenty 'of runs of sheep through the season out; of tt e Gisborne ;jvor)cs winch yvere. very jmuch better butcher’s meat than the show cues wdre. Personally we would strongly recommend that, when you ship . sheep to, the IJnitpd Kingdom for show purposes, you en-deavor-to get some of your very best breeders interested in order to make a display worthy of the district from which they come. These sheep- and lambs are being further 'displayed in on e of - the best West End stores, name-lv, Harrod’s, and we hope that New Zealand will get as much advertisement out cif them as ■possible.’’

Pointing out. that poor carcases in the show classes sent’ Home r were a very had advertisement for the district, Mr. E. R. Black moved as follows ; ,

“That hi show classes of sheep and lambs to hd judged in London the local judge be empowered to pass them as fit or otherwise for competition in. London..’’

Mr. J. C. Graham commented that tliis year’s, report was vastly different Vr.om that .received last year, n hen the judges were high in their praise of the exhibits. The motion -was carried.