ROYAL SHOW LAMBS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6852, 6 March 1929, Page 10

ROYAL SHOW LAMBS

RESULTS OF AWARDS ON SMITHFEELD MARKET.

By the last English mail the New Zealand Aleat Producers ’ board has received a report from its London manager regarding the display and judging on Smithfield Alarket of the lambs ex the Fifth Royal Show held at Palmerston North in October last.

The Board offers annually special prizes at the Royal Agricultural Show for fat iambs most suitable for our Dominion’s export trade and tho typo most desired to keep up our reputation on the London market. The lambs aro judged alive on tho showground and prizes arc awarded by the Meat board for tho best pens.

All the lambs entered in this class are then killed and shipped Home to the Board’s London manager who arranges a special display of them on the Smithficld market. The quality of tho carcases is judged by three judges appointed by the trade. Further prizes for the best lot of three carcases as judged on Smithfield are also awarded by the board. This year the winning pens were as follow: Judged alive on Showgrounds. First prize—L. B. Wall £ls; second prize—R. M. Collis £10; third prizeH. R. Green £5. Result of Award on Smithfield Market. First prize—H. R. Green £ls; second prize—L. B. Wall £10; third prize— L. B. Wall £5. The Board’s London manager reports that the 72 lambs entered in this class arrived Home in excellent order and were displayed on the stall of Messrs. Haves, Paine and Knowlden, Smithfield Market on 15th January, and made a .very fine show, which attracted an enormous amount of attention from hundreds of retailers and from all the market stall-holders. The whole exhibit was purchased by Messrs. Harrods, a large West End

store, and a further display was arranged for in their shop. The report of tho three judges appointed by the Imported Aleat Trade Association Incorporated—(Messrs. J. I. Hamilton, D. Alessent and AI. Kingswell) —is as follows: .

“One could not wish for a better display of lambs. Every carcase bore evidence of a desire to meet the wants of the Home trade. The condition and symmetry of form called forth unstinted praise from the large number of traders, wholesale and retail, who viewed tho exhibit. “Our awards aro as follow: —

Ist. prize: Lot No.' 731: —For balance, conformation and flesh carrying, this pen was undoubtedly tho premier lot. Tho three carcases were equal in quality. The legs plump and short, with a good twist of meat, backs broad and level, fitting evenly into a pair of broad level shoulder:-. The disposition of external fat was uniform and the internal fat not excessive.

2nd. prize: Lot No. 722:—A pen of very choice ewe lambs, excellent in quality, balance and conformation.. Tho lack of that essential connective tissue on the legs of one carcase robbed the pen of premier position. 3rd. prize: Lot No. 723: —For symmetry of form and balance, excellent. One carcase inclined to be fat.”