WEIGHT- GUESSING COMPETITION.
Following up the example set last year, the Agricultural and Pastoral Association this year, at their show, offered prizes open only to farmers' sons and farm hands, for the best guesses at live and dead weight of fat bullocks. There were 16 entries, and the result of the competition was placed before the executive committee at their meeting yesterday. Mr. James Hall, son of Mr. ■ Robert Hall, of One-tree Hill, won the three first prizes: First for the live weight of two bullocks, first for the dead weight of the two, and first for the live and dead weight combined. In the live and dead weight combined he was only 41hs under the total weight, 49741b5, his guess being 49701b5. For dead weight, in one bullock he was 121bs under the weight, and on the other he was 41bs over. For the live weight of one bullock he was 501 bs over the mark, and he was 151bs under in regard to the other. Mr. Isaac Gray took second prize for his guess as to the live weight of one bullock, Mr, J. Massey the second prize for the dead weight of the two bullocks, and Mr. Robert Hunter second prize in the total weight for the two bullocks.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9367, 25 November 1893, Page 3
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