FAT LAMB JUDGING

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 4 May 1935, Page 16

FAT LAMB JUDGING

LONDON RESULTS ANNOUNCED EGMONT A. AND P. CLASSES JUDGES’ FAVOURABLE COMMENT xu not one case did the placings uwaiued at. London in the fat iamb cnanipionship and the district competition m export lambs of the Eginent A. and P. Association coincide

•‘til the piaeings or tne judge at the summer show last November. The results were received at a meeting cl tne general committee of the associaL.un at xiawera yesterday.

After the animals had been judged at the show, they were killed and consigned to London, where they were jutigca under the auspices of the Imported Meat Trade Association. The n’anganui district won the‘New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board Shield for the uest display of lamb from the -sorth Island.

Results in the Egmont association competitions were as follow*, the names in parenthesis being the award in the similar placings at the summer show :

Fat lamb championship.—J. A. Robertson, Oliangai (R. B. Douglas, Hawera) 1, Johnston Bros., Waverley (W. A. Sheat, Pihama) 2, D. Walker, Waverley (J. J. Pease, Hawera) 3. ! District competition in export lambs. | —Alan Good, Pihama (G. Ogle, Ararata) 1, G. Lupton, Waverley (J. J. Pease, Hawera) 2, A. L. Bremer, Pukengahu (M. Dickie, Waverley) 3. Mr Alan Good’s pen was also placed second in a competition for the , best individual pen in the district competition. H -imenting on the district competition, the judges said that Mr Good exhibited three exceedingly choice lambs,t most attractive in size and of e ‘Tonal qualitv. The pen could be considered as containing lambs in every way ideal, both from the butcher’s and consrme’s’ point of view. Mr Lupton showed three very choice lambs, but one carcase was scarcely up to the standard of the winner. Three very good lambs were entered bv Mr Bremer. They were somewhat heavier than the first and second pens, but of exceptional quality. They were most attractive from every point of view.

The New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board advised that the North Island competition attracted entries from nine districts, which sent a total of 405 lambs. The judges’ report had stated: “Broadly speaking, the whole of the nine districts in this year’s exhibit were made up of a very choice collection of well bred lambs of excellent quality, and, as districts, wore very even in this respect. AfteT very careful considteration we unanimously placed the first three districts in the following order: Wanganui 1, Wairaraua 2, Feilding 3.” The awards in the best three single pens competition were as follow • Wairarapa 1. Taranaki (Mr A. L. Bremer, Pukengahu) 2, Feilding 3. Commenting on the district exhibits the judges said that the Egmont association entries were a verv choice lot of lambs, exceedingly good in contour. There could lie little adverse criticism apart from a few lambs which were scarcely up to the high standard of the others in the same district.

Mr J. Forbes presided at the meeting and there was a large attendance '-f members.

| The following new members were elected: Miss M. Adams IHawera) and Messrs 11. E. James (Hawera), M. Eailelands (Auroa), E'. G. Reckin and T. J. Salmon. As it was the last meeting of the rear the president extended his thanks to the members of the committee for their co-operation. Mr W. V. Parker moved n vote of +hnnks to the expo”tive. Tt- was their first year under their new rules, -winch had proved very satisfactorv. he said. Messrs H. E. Johnson and K. Duckworth were apnointed as the association’s representatives on the promoted farm school committee sponsored by the South Taranaki Herd Testing Association.