BLOODSTOCK FROM HOME.
. • vPIGS FOR; THE GOVERNMENT. ■ f ■ ■ •• . • '■ 'V!-V^ <..'. t*«c« OT7K OWN OOBKBSPOKDBSr.} • ■J' . ,;; f V LONDON, Oct. 19. li Mr. ; G. H. . Spicer, a director of the paper firing of:? Messrs. : Edward Towgood " j and ; Sons, is making a present fof .two;-;;/, ; ; large black f and two| large white f pigs $111 the' Now Zealand Government. An ®di- y - ■ tional black and an additional white pig are bwrg bought by the Government > from Mr. ' Spicer.V These wifl be shipped *' by 'an '-early..boat.. .- •-=; < q: Of the three' large ; black /pigs-one is a boar, and two are gilts. ;•*. The boar wis sired by " Stinebtly ; Orpheus," which toS a second - prise-winner at - the Royal Show at Cambridge in 1922, and a feet prize-winner at toe Peterborough; BhoPffSm in ' 1983. --?: The two,;' gilts are sired - by a " Sudbonrce" bow. 01 the '.three ' : " white ipigs •■' one is I& « boor % and . a two are > gilts. >TBie boar was sired by a** Bourne c Bar,: None '33rd 23549," a: pig : that was a [ .-A first prize-winner at the Royal Show it Cardiff jin 1919. i ,', These animals v hare .ij been'* bred v: at Mr. Spicer's Sawston Mill A Farm, vin Cambridgeshire. '•
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18565, 24 November 1923, Page 14
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196BLOODSTOCK FROM HOME. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18565, 24 November 1923, Page 14
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