ROYAL CHAMPION PIG

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22108, 14 May 1935, Page 5

ROYAL CHAMPION PIG

TAMWORTH FOR DOMINION ARRIVAL BY MONOWAI / One of the best pedigree pigs to be imported into the Dominion in recent years arrived from Australia by the Monowai yesterday afternooti. It was purchased in England shortly after winning the highest honours at the Royal Agricultural Societyjs Show at Ipswich Inst summer, and, shipped to Sydney by the Port Adelaide, it has already undergone a period of three months in the quarantine station there. After a further period on Motuihi Island it will be delivered to its purchaser, Mr. A. T. Rogers, of Hopuhopu. Bred by Colonel C. J. H. Wheat-ley, at Berkswell Park, near Coventry, this pig, Berkswell Up to Date sth, won the Royal championship as a two-year-old. This year it was awarded the championship medal for Tamworth boars, and the challenge cup for the best Tamworth pig in the show. Its breeder figured with conspicuous success in all the other classes, winning among other trophies, the champion medal for Tamworth sows. The boar is of enormous size, and, comfortably housed in a large crate in the hold, arrived in the pink of condition. It lias been handled on behalf of its purchaser by the Farmers' Cooperative Auctioneering Company, Limited. During its stay in Sydney experts of the Agricultural Department stated that in tneir opinion it was the finest example of a Tamworth boar that they had seen.