Young Farmers’ Clubs

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 111, 13 May 1939, Page 6

Young Farmers’ Clubs

RESULTS OF COMPETITIONS Nine teams from various parts of the Wairarapa took part in the Young Farmers’ inter-club annual judging competitions, held at the Wairarapa Training Farm. The Masterton club, by consistently good work, won the Point Blank Cup for the third year in succession. Carterton was third and Mangatainoka, one of the smallest clubs, put up a good performance to come third. The championship results were as follow, the points in each case relating in order to Jerseys, Romneys, Southdowns, Clydesdales: Masterton, 577, 512, 671, 697, total 2457, first. Carterton, 546, 329, 458, 702, total 2035, second. Mangatainoka, 467, 319, 534, 550, total 1865, third. Martinborough, 410, 381, 534, 500, total 1525, fourth. Greytown, 541, 361, 519, 381, total 1802, fifth. Ballance, 498, 330, 513, 360, total 1701, sixth. Alfredton, 562, 205, 404, 105, total 1276, seventh. Featherston, 300, 194, 327, , total 821, eighth. Tinui, , 168, 152, , total 320, ninth. Alfredton, Featherston and Tinui did not have full teams. The class results were as follow: Jerseys: W. Campin (Carterton), 237 points, 1; E. Henderson (Masterton), 227 points, 2; D. Gordon (Greytown), 223 points, 3; W. Heckler (Alfredton), 204 points, 4. Romneys: J. West (Masterton), 213 points, 1; W. Nix (Featherston), 194 points, 2; G. Cotter (Mangatainoka), 178 points, 3; E. Beilis (Tinui), 168 points, 4. South downs: M. Hancox (Martinborough), 261 points, 1; D. McLachlan (Masterton), 250 points, 2; H. Bannister (Masterton), 233 points, 3; F. Bremner (BalJance), 227 points, 4. Clydesdales: B. Blatchford (Masterton), 273 points, 1; L. Renall (Carterton), 267 points, 2, C. Wyeth (Masterton), 254 points, 3; G. Cotter (Mangatainoka), 252 points, 4. The Clydesdalo results have not yet been checked up. I The class results were as follow: | Jerseys: Masterton (E. Henderson, H. j Miller, K. McGillivray;, 575 points, 1; J Alfredton (A. Heckler, 1. McDonald, W. Heckler), 562 points, 2; Carterton (M. Knutson, H. McKenzie, W. Campin), 546 points, 3; Greytown (Y. Yates, D. Gordon, G. Humphries), 541 points, 4. Romneys: Masterton (A. I*. Southey, J. S. Mackay, J. West), 512 points, 2; Martinborough (I. McLaren, A. Jackson, G. Rowlands), 381 points, 2; Greytown (M. McKenzie, B. Ingley, K. Gates), 361 points, 8; Ballance (H. Wilton, J. Bibby, J*. Sinclair), 330 points, 4. Southdowns: Masterton (W. Perry, H. Bannister, D. McLachlan), 671 points, 1; Mangatainoka (I. Algie, R. Waiduiau, J. Cotter) and Martinborough (M. Hancox, W. Hancox, A. Jackson), 534 points, equal 2; Greytown (K. Gates, M. McKenzie, -W Gordon), 519 points, 4; Ballance (H. Wilton. F. Breniner, W. Holdaway), 513 points, 5. Clydesdales: Carterton (L. Renal], G. Wadham, J. Milne), 702 points, 1; Masterton (G. Blatchford, B. McKenzie, C. Wyeth), 697 points, 2; Mangatainoka (K. Pryde, G. Cotter, A. Fulton), 545 points, 3; Martinborough (I. McLaren, M. Hancox, G. Rowlands), 500 points, 4. These results have not yet been checked. MANGATAINOKA YOUNG FARMERS The monthly meeting of the club was held in the County Chambers on Thursday evening, there being present Messrs J. E. Hewitt (patron), F. E. Ward and H. Cotter (senior members) and a good attendance of members. After correspondence had been read and received, Messrs George Cotter and I. Algie (club delegates) spoke briefly on the Wairarapa District Committee meeting held in Masterton during the day. The chairman (Mr. George Cotter) read the results of the judging competitions held at the Wairarapa Training Farm recently and mentioned that the Mangatainoka club held the same position as last year in gaining third place in the group section. A vote of thanks was passed to Mr. J. Hutton for the use of the council chambers. The club’s sympathy went out to Mr. J. Campbell in his recent illness, members wishing him a speedy recovery. After general business had been disposed of, the chairman introduced Mr. B. A. C. Tennent, of the Massey College, Palmerston North, who gave a talk on wool research, which proved very interesting and instructive to all present.

Mr. Tennent had with him a wellarranged set of lantern slides showing clearly the growth of wool at different periods, hairiness, aud parts of fleece in which hair was to be found. The speaker also gave a brief description of fleece testing in benzol, describing how hair was defined from wool. At the conclusion of Mr. Tennent’s talk a general discussion took place, and he answered the many questions put to him in a very able manner. Mr. George Cotter thanked Mr. Tennent for his very fine talk and assured him that the club members had gained a lot of valuable information from him.