SYDNEY'S ROYAL SHOW.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19298, 10 April 1926, Page 13

SYDNEY'S ROYAL SHOW.

A REMARKABLE DISPLAY. NEW ZEALAND CATTLE. SOME FINE EXHIBITS ENTERED. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. J SYDNEY, April 1. Sydney's great event, the Easter Show, is in full swing. With buoyant hearts, confidence in the coming season, the man from the country is conspicuous by his presence: One Sydney Show is very much like another, at a cursory glance. They are, in the popular mind, of the old order that changeth not, but this year's show marks an improvement generally on its predecessors. The entries, for one thing, constitute a record. The society's domain now covers over 70 acres, traversed and intersected by about four and a-lialf miles of perfectly-made roads. As it is now crowded at show time, and as the society now commands about the whole of the space available to it, one hesitates to try to picture the Royal Show in another ten or twenty years' time. Possibly, however, they were thinking the same' things about future shows back in the days, more than 100 years ago, when the pageant was staged at historic Parramatta.

It was a year or two back that tha centenary of the Eoyal Show was commemorated, hut like good wine, it seems to be improving with age. The magnificent district exhibits in the Agricultural Hall are again a feature of the show. What a magnificent advertisement they would be for Australia if they could bo staged just as they are in the Old Country, as a set-off for the advertisement it gets for its occasional droughts and bush fires and grasshoppers and strikes. What magnificent witness tliey are to the bounty of Nature, the richness of our soil, and the faith and the zeal of the men and the women who have made the wilderness blossom as the rose. Rarely, if ever, has New Zealand been better represented at the Sydney Show than this year. Breeders have sent of their very best, including many notable prize-winners at New Zealand shows. Shorthorns, Aberdeen-Angus, Friesians, Jerseys, and fat cattle have all come forward, and have shared substantially in the prize money. The largest representation is made in the Shorthorn section, and in this three of New Zealand's largest studs have participated. Mr. L. W. Storry and Mr. L. White, of the South Island, have sent forward sixteen head, practically all of them sired by the two notable imported bulls, the Duthie-bred Collynie Proud Knight and the Millhills bred Prince Paul. Each of these bulls has won the championship at the Christchurch Show. Mr. D. Buchanan, of Masterton, has forwarded three young bulls, which have shown out well in both islands of the Dominion. The Aberdeen-Aligns contingent has created a favourable impression, as some of the most popular blood has been submitted for entry. Mr. David Allen, of Wellington, has sent three of his heifers. The two yearlings are sired by Olaf of Ben Bomond, the Royal champion bull' of New Zealand, who some months ago was exported to this State. Both the champion animals at the recent Dannevirke Show, where it is considered there was the best exhibition of this breed that has been seen in the Dominion for many years, are here. Hustle of Koiro, a 1923 September bull, was bred by Mr. Norman Gibbons, of Palmerston North, and he defeated his own sire, the imported Hayston Bright Print, for the championship. The sire of the latter, the great Perinthian, was the winner at the Highland show- as a two-year-old, and then sold for the record price of 6000gns. for export to the United States, where he also won the International at Chicago. The presence of such fashionably-bred Black Polls in Sydney has greatly stimulated interest in this early-maturing breed. New Zealand's eminence in Friesians has found fitting expression, as two of her champion cows are exhibited. One is Willow vale Galatea Segis, which won the championship at the Dominion's first Royal Show. A three-year-old heifer by this cow has been entered by Mr. John Brown, of Newcastle, who is establishing a herd of New Zealand Friesians. The same owner lias also entered an eighteen-months-old bull from a Palmerston North stud, from which great things are expected. With stock in the younger classes in full force from the Dominion, competition with the local entries has been very keen. At some of our past shows New Zealand Friesian fanciers have spoken somewhat disparagingly of the Royal's entries in that breed. An opportunity is here afforded of seeing the two countries competing on level terms.