LOCAL WOOL SALE

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7026, 14 January 1910, Page 3

LOCAL WOOL SALE

Tuesday, February 15th, 2 p.m,

MASTEBTON A. & P. ASSOCIATION

TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL SHOW.

Tho Masterton Agricultural and Pas- ' *oral Association's twenty-third annual show will lie helct on February 15th and 16th, and the programme just issued shows that the farming, community is being well catered for. In addition to tke ordinary - prize list there are cups ia the various classes having a total valtfe of oyer -.£200, while, special cash, prizes are also donated. Messrs Quib- " bell "■■ Bros, offer a sterling silver cup valued at .£lO 10s for most points *.n purebred sheep, while the proprietors of Messrs Lawes Chemical Co., Ltd., ■ofier a : sterling silver cup. valued at twenty-five guineas, for the best Lincoln ram under twenty-one months. Then there is a cup valued at twelve guineas ;: offered by the Wolsley Sheep Shearing Machine Co., Ltd., for most points scored in English Leicosters. In tho JRomney Marsh class a sterling' silver tup, valtted- at twenty-five guineas, is offered by Messrs W. and H. Beetham for the-best pen of five rams under 21 months, while Messrs Cooper and Ke.phews, the proprietors of Cooper's sheep dip, hare donated a oup valued at forty guineas for- the ' best ram under 21 ..months. Another cup valued at twenty guineas has been donated by Messrs W. ' and H. - Beetham for the most points .won in the freezing classes. ' In the class fox fat cattle the Dixon Investment Co offer a handsome silver bowl ("Manawa-Bowl"), valued at twenty .guineas. In the horse classes there is a ■ silver ohallenge cup, valued at twenty guineas,, donated by Mr W. E. Bidwill, for the best hack in the show, and Mr B- Tf. Barton offers a. silver cup, valued : ttt~J2s 55.. for the best hack under five years of age which has not won » first prize in ' any show ring at the time of sntry. Also there is the Buick Memorial Cup, valued at twenty guineas, which has been nxesented by Meeers W. H , A., K„ and the late F. Buick, sons of tie late Mx W. B. Buick, for the bona fide owner of the horse or horses winning the hunters' leaping competition, to be won three times in succession or five times at intervals.