National Bacon Pig Championship Goes To Taranaki Breeder

Northern Advocate, 26 June 1939, Page 8

National Bacon Pig Championship Goes To Taranaki Breeder

JUDGING IN THE NATIONAL BACON PIG CHAMPIONSHIP, THE OTJTSTANDING FEATURE OF THE WHANGAREI WINTER EXHIBITION, WAS COMPLETED DURING THE WEEK-END. The championship this year was on a truly Dominion-wide basis, having been arranged in eight provincial sections. Hoof judging was conducted at eight leading stock shows throughout New Zealand and the pigs were then acquired by the Whangarei A. and P. Society and held in cold storage until cured at Auckland, and then assembled at the Whangarei Winter Show for final judging as bacon. All told, 328 sides of bacon were adjudicated upon by Dr. C. P. McMeekan and Messrs H. Kneebone and F. Merritt, the display occupying twice the space of previous years and making a really outstanding bacon court. To Mr W. H. Bunning, of Midhur st, Taranaki, went the honour of annexing the bacon pig championship, his Tamworth-Berkshire cross scoring 102 points out of a possible 125. 'X Eight provincial championships were also allotted, the highest scoring pig among the 46 entered in the Northland section being a Large WhiteMiddie White cross entered by J. C. Ambury Ltd., Mangere. ■■■A provincial cup was also awarded for the section in which the pigs scored the highest average points. South Auckland won the provincial competition, receiving the highest average points of all pigs. . . . The average points gained in the championship this year over all entries was 77 per cent, as against 70.99 per cent, last year. ) The Leading Pigs av*Supreme Champion and Champion of Taranaki:— W. H. Bunning (Midhurst, Taranaki), Tamworth-Berkshire cross, 102 1 “•-‘A. T. Rogers (Ngaruawahia, South Auckland), Tamworth, 101 pts. South Auckland champion) 2 and S. Ross (Te Puke, Bay of Plenty), Large White, 100 pts. (Bay ■ r .v of. Plenty champion) 3 i r Ambury’s, Ltd. (Mangere, Auckland), Large White-Middle White), 99£ pts. (Northland champion) 4 A. Jamieson (Kaitaia sub-section, Northland), Black and Large l',"f Black, 99 pts., equal 5 ■ • D. and S. Ross (Te; Puke, Bay of Plenty), Berkshire, 99 pis., equal 5 R. D. Fisher (Cambridge, Waikato), Berkshire, 99pts., Waikato cham- - pion and equal 5 yig-Thus D. and S. Ross qualify for two out of the first seven places, and the, “Northern Advocate’s” prize of £3O. lyVMrs H. M. Jackson (Ngaere, Taranaki), Berkshire, 98 pts 8 H, E. Johnson and Co. (Kiripaka, Nonhland), Large White, 97 pts. *ff equal 9 vr- H. C, Taylor (South Auckland), Berkshire, 97 pts., equal 9 H. E. Johnson and Co. (Kiripaka, Northland), Large White, 96 pts. .. 11 'C. D. Dawson (Maungatapere, Northland), 95 pts., equal 12 H. E. Johnson and Co. (Kiripaka, Northland, Large White, 95pt., equal 12 E. Johnson and Co. (Kiripaka, Northland), Large White, 94pt., equal 14 -I. Weaver"" (Whangarei, Northland). Tamworth-Berkshire, 94 pts. equal 14 ■ T. Weaver (Northland), Tamworth-Berkshire, 93 pts 16 H. E. Johnson and Co. (Kiripaka, Northland), Large White, 91pt., equal 17 ;.t£.J. Page (Leithfield, South Island), three-quarter Tamworth-Berkshire (South Island champion), 91 pts., equal 17 Raines Bros. (Pataumahoe, South Auckland), Large White, 91 pts., Hi equal • .. 17

A, K. Wright (South Auckland l ), 91 pts., equal .. 17 S'Reg. Webb (Manawatu), Berkshire Cross), 91 pts. (Manawatu champion), equal .. 17 H. D. Foster (Kaitaia, Northland), Berkshire-Tamworth, 90 pts, equal 22 T, M. Wheeler (Motukarara, Souths Island), Tam worth-Devon-Berk-shire, 90 pts., equal .. 22 ,'VMiss G. Breen (East Coast), Large White, 90 pts. (East Coast 1% champion), equal 22

The pig placed first on hoof would have been second, but was excluded for overweight. The others were unplaced as bacon.