“It would be an excellent thing if an arrangement could be made with a leading representative of the Bradford trade to send out an expert to advise sheep farmers in New Zealand on the values and faults in wool,” said the president, Mr. G. H. Perry, at the annual meeting a few days ago of the Masterton A. and P. Association. “This'is a matter which should be taken up from a Dominion standpoint. It should be neither very difficult nor very costly to arrange that buyers representing Bradford firms, competent men with a full knowledge of wool, should visit all the shows and give Dominion growers the benefit 04 their expert knowledge. ’’ Wanganui buyers at the last hope stock sale were greatly interested in a three-year-old heifer which was purchaser by Mr. T. O’Dea. On being killed it was found to weigh 6801 b. The beast was bred on the Taoroa country by Mr. P. D. Farmers consider 68/lb. tc b» /•! cord weight for a three-year *Jd heifer aA thia flu* of the 4W.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 204, 12 August 1927, Page 8
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