National Aryshire Show and Sale

Northland Age, Volume XII, Issue 46, 26 August 1943, Page 2

National Aryshire Show and Sale

£IOO Voted as Prize-money

Amongst progressive steps taken at the Annual Meeting of the New Zealand Aryshire Cattle Breeders’ Association recently held in Wellington was a decision to vote £IOO in prize-money in connection with the forthcoming First National Aryshire Show and Sale to be held at Claudelands, Hamilton, on Friday, September 10. The prize-money, which is a record, will be distributed amongst the classes for two-year-old bulls, yearling bulls (two divisions), three-year-old and older bulls, yearling heifers and a group of a yearling bull and two yearling heifers. Substantial prize-money is also to be awarded for the Senior and Junior Championship and Reserve and the Grand Championship and the Reserve Grand Championship. Mr. J. G. Donald, Ardgowan, Featherston.was appointed official judge. The event is planned to be

one of the most outstanding yet held in the Dominion and entries will represent leading studs in all parts of the North Island. Amongst the older exhibits will be some of the notable prize-winners and champions at leading Shows, while the younger stock will represent the best sires and many of the best dams both for butterfat and Show-ring performances associated with the breed. Since the New Zealand Aryshire Breeders’ Association went in for its progressive policy of importing the best cattle obtainable from overseas countries such as Canada and direct from the home country of the breed in Scotland, Aryshire cattle have made tremendous strides in the Dominion. That this progress is to be maintained is indicated by the establishment of the National Show and Sale and also by the fact that importations are still being made, one leading breeder having recently landed a bull from Scotland at a cost bordering on £IOOO. A half-brother to this bull has since sold at auction in Scotland for 1000 guineas sterling.