HEREFORD CATTLE-BREEDERS ASSOCIATION.
The annual report of the New Zealand Hereford Cattle-breeders' Association states that the finances of the association arc in a most satisfactory condition. During the year the council invested £2OO in war qonds, this? with previous amounts taken yp, totalling £6OO of bonds and certificates held by the association. After meeting all outgoings, the accumulated funds amount to £766 Vss sd—tin increase of £69 16s 4d for the past 12 months. The association consist:; of 82 members, while a number of fresh herds are included in volume 20 [the largest herd book so far compiled by Jho council). Following the custom of past fears, yom council donated trophies for jompetition in FTercford classes at the
Hawke's Bay, Poverty Bay, and Mastorton A. and P. shows, thus helping to popularise the breed by bringing the best am mals into the show ring. We l&r.rr- (states the Wyndham Farmer) that Mr James Column (formerly of Gore), who purchased Mr E. Ross Hunter's farm property at Edendale last August, has just resold the property, containing 250 acres, at an advance of £6 an acre on what it cost him 10 months ago. The purchaser is Mr Archibald Weir, dairy farmer, Otago Peninsula. The tfr-ece wool entered in the class for wool from a *uh> rtomney flock at che Winter Show by G. P. Johnston should have been mado in the name of W. J. Johnston, Waikaka Valley.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3352, 12 June 1918, Page 8
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