JERSEY CATTLE BREEDERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18380, 21 April 1923, Page 11

JERSEY CATTLE BREEDERS.

ASSISTING SOLDIER SETTLERS

A meeting of the Auckland Jersey Cattle Club was held at the Agricultural and Pastoral Association's rooms yesterday, Mr. W. H. Waterhouse presiding.

The question of assisting soldier settlers ■who. had taken up dairying was discussed. A scheme formulated by the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association and endorsed by Sir Andrew Russell, was that breeders of purebred stock be invited to donate a bull of serviceable age during the season, the animal to be available to any soldier settler, on payment of £5, for three seasons. At the expiration of that period the hull would become the property of tha organisation operating the scheme, who could sell or transfer it to a settler or dispose of it by auction, it was stated that owing to financial conditions, few of the settlers were in a position to purchase first-class sires. Some of the members said they had already given bulls to soldier settlers. It was decided that members of the club would, support the scheme both individually and collectively. ; A request from Messrs. Wright, Stephenson and Co. for support to the firm's proposal to bold a sale of pedigree cattle at or about the Winter Show period was considered. It was decided that as- the club would hold its annual sale shortly after the date suggested it could not accede to the request.