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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 221, 1 September 1932, Page 11

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MEAT BOARD’S COMPETITION. Last year the . New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board inaugurated a district competition in export lambs with a view to still further improving the quality of the Dominion’s lambs, and also educating farmers as to the requirements of the Home trade. A perpetual challenge shield is awarded by the board for the best district display of lambs from the North Island, also one for the South Island. In addition, the board donates special prizes of £l5 £lO, and £5 for the best individual lots' of lambs shipped from the North Island, and similar prizes for the best individual lots of lambs shipped from the South Island. A very important phase of the competition' is the organisation of a “field” day at the freezing works On the day on which the lambs are killed; this enables farmers to see the carcases after they are killed in order to compare the quality. Afterwards, the lambs are shipped Home for a special display and judged on Smithfield market. , , The competition was taken up most enthusiastically last season bv the various districts and is proving most valuable both from the educational and advertising point of view. The board has now issued conditions of the competition for the forthcoming season to the various A. and P. Societies and other farmers’ bodies interested.