AUCKLAND KENNEL CLUB.

Otago Witness, Issue 2840, 19 August 1908, Page 36

AUCKLAND KENNEL CLUB.

A DUNEDIN DISTINCTION.

AUCKLAND, August 14 The annual show > of the Auckland Kennel Club was opened to-day. Among the challenge clasees allotted to the Auckland Club this year by the N.Z.K.C. are Scottish and Skye terriers and Irish and English setters. In the Irish setter challenge class Voyager, a fine imported dog, owned by Mr Walter Sevill, of Wai«gara, carried off the honours. The Wishaw Jock collie trophy for the best rough-coated colonial bred collie dog or slut over 12 months old was won by Mr J. R. Hayne, of Duiredin, with Zealandia Premier, a splendid dog, bred in New Zealand.

Probably the most costly tree in the world is the plane which grows in Wood street, In the City of London. It occupies space which would bring in a rental of £250 per annum, and this, capitalised at 30 yeara' pm^ohase, ffives a value of £7500. A petition signed by 92 persons along the East road to Kennington was on Friday received by the Southland County Council, prayiner that cyoliste be permitted to ride on the"asphalt track along the East road to- the cemetery. It was resolved to inform the petitioners that the council's by-laws prevented the council from granting the request. Day classes for the sons of farmers arc to be held in technical schools jn the northern territory of tha Wanganui Education Board. The course wall embrace theory and practice of farming, dairy work, agricultural botany, Agricultural chemistry, agircultural zoology, useful and injurious insects, beekeeping and woodwork for the farm.