POULTRY NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2295, 24 February 1898, Page 24

POULTRY NOTES.

1 ". " Mr Sprosen, well known as a local J Minorca fancier, states that a Leghorn1 Wyandotte pulleb bred by him commenced ■ laying, last v=eek ab five montls 10 days old. 1 This sounds like good business. Have any , other poultry fanciers anything Io report ? | i * . " A general meeting ot the O*maru Poultry : j Socitty waa held in the Coffee Rooms on the i i 17bh, when there waa a good attendav.ee of j members present. Mr Williamson, vice-presi-dent, was in Ihe chair. Tbe resignation of Mr T. Richmond a* hon. eecretary was read to the meeting, he having left the district. Mr Harb ! propo-ed, and Sir Chalmers sc-cjnded, that ! Mr C. Christie be elected secretary, which was | , carried unanimously. Messrs Burns, Harb, j ! Hunt, Hollow, (ikd rhe Gecretary were appointed i 1 to revise the schedule and submit the same to j 1 membpra. The dates for holding the show i I were fixed for Friday and Saturday, Bth j i and 9th of July. Ib was resolved thab Mr 1 Hunt and the "secretary arrange for a hall, j 1 The secretary waa instructed to write to Messrs ' Earnehaw (Obristchuich), Lillieo (Tirnam), ', Hertslebb (Waicoafcs), aud Harb (Oanoaru) re j'idgipg. A letter was received from Hr G. A. 1 I M'Quarie (N'eL-on), enclosing a donation to the ! I iundi of tbe socie'y, and tbe (secretary wag ! instructed to acknowledge the same. Cups j I were allotted to rhe following breeds : Light • Brahmas, Houd^ns, and canaries. The chair- \ , man (Mr Williamson), in a neat and coccise ' cpeech, on behall of tha society presented Mr j W. Hart wifch n handsome timepiece for ptst j services. He referred to the many good services I which Mr H-nt had reudf-red to the society j gratuitously siuce its inception, and said that ib J was principally owing to his energy as score- | ; tary thai tbe socioty had been brought to it* i ■ present seuud position. Mr Harb suitably ) rep ii'd. The meeting closed with the usual compliment to the chair. |