SHEEP-BREEDERS-ASSOCIATION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 7743, 12 June 1903, Page 3

SHEEP-BREEDERS- ASSOCIATION.

(Per Press Association.) v ~ *S?ALMERSTON N* June 1 11. it thi annual meeting of the North lala^bStt of the Sheep-Breeders XWiatiom to-day, Thi to certain practices at ram fairs. Ine dSaflSr ?t was said, were som^mes firms of repute, who, either from indifference or carelessness, wore comeS? made nse of *y unscrupulous pSWto sell a much 1«?^J«-*J of rams than the registered floclv could^ossiWy produce. It had been broue-ht to the Council's notice that atSpts had been made Up procure ear labels bearing the name belo*ffin ff to some other breeder, and it wfs proposed to ask the Agricultural Department, when amending the Agricultural and Pastoral Act, tc►introduce a clause conferring ri^ts of tratte matk upon a namo regi stared D y HfcC rWd, Sera,: and mocte Bo<* Societies. The report was adopted. The balance-sheet showed a credit ! of £217 18s and a balance of assets of £353 ss,Bd., Bd. ..,.,.* a* A motion was carried tiiat^the AssWaflcm considter ihe advisability of holding ram fairs in the Noi«i island, at such places as are considered suitable, under the management oi X tr^dedded that this meeting is strongly opposed to *epropbsal emanating from the South Island branch to allow admission from time to time of flocks now unregistered. ,