HAWKES BAY SHOW.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12588, 19 October 1911, Page 7

HAWKES BAY SHOW.

(Per Press Association). , ..-JIA STINGS, last night,

The annual show of ; tho Hawke's Bay/ A. and P. Society t>nened r at .Hastings to-day. Tho weather wa9.:,daiighttuUy "ORrie.Ybut a.' strong southerly raised a- discomforting dust. The entries m fjnjjarlyi every. Qj^samtfiawed ; an iincrease on last year, 'fujd rthe Crowds i?f farmers present gave solid proof that the settlement of Hawke's Boy is progressing apace. The favorable s , - sprji'ig-- iinabl^U- 'breeders- to keep their stock' m excellent „ condition,- and the exh^bit^ thja year maintained the former high standard ;6f -Bfib'ws. '-llii'. the horse section and all departmeiits of the cattle section the splendid competition and,. undoubted quality were the outstanding features, but It is, however, .m the sheep classes that the Hawke's Bay show takes the lead, and- m these the entries were more numerous than al any previous show. In Romueys there. wert ; - 30 competitors iri tHe cjass.t.fyr ram' A hoggets, and. 20 .ih,,-the class for the" ppn of' five. The, names of many breeders well- kVowri ia'othe'f parts of the Doininibn figured on the programme for the first time. Champion awards were as follows:— Cattle: Hereford bull, E. Short; C. A. J. ■Levett, reserve" champion; Hereford cow, E. Short; ..Ayrshire ibulU Slack- Bros.; Ayrshire cow, Slack Bros.; Holptein xFrieaian . bull. -W.,1. Lovelock; Hoistein Fresian covv, \V.. I. Loy^lock; Alderhey -Jersey bull, # C. H. Thompsoil; Alderney : Jersey cow, C. H. Thompson. Slieep: Merino ram,- ■ R. . D. D. McLean; Merino ewe, R. D. D. McLean ; Southdown ram,, Nelson.^ Bros^; .Southdown ewe,^Nelson Bros.', Border Leicester., ran, J.. Dowthwaite; Border Leicester ewei, Mrs . J. D.. Ormond; Lincoln ram, W. Perry. , -.'../

„,. <,•>,: i.-.. HASTINGS, tljis day. There wnk delightful spririg -weather for tlie second ; day of the show.- A ■ heavy • sliower fejl Jasfc night. The westerly gale abated, and the moniiufif oaljn and fresh. The t lnwi^jis rehdy t itj]l of, yisitors, each ' train, bringing. n inrgfe contingent - from the country. • '"■ Additional cliampionships .. were: — Draught entire, J. Curtis' Pairie. Prince; draught mare, E. Short's Hanniston's Belle;. Shorthorn bull, Arch McLean's JhuVe .--of York 10th,;,with Douglas McLean's, Copper King ,'flf>» reserve champion; Shorthorn cow, Arch McLean's" Ducließfi of Beaufort, 14th, iyittv.,W. 'T. Williams', Butter . the 3rd as ' rfeserve cb'umpion ; Polled Angus bull, F." .Armstrong's' Mason; PolledAngus. cow, A. S; G. Carlyon'B Clyde;. English Leicester ram, Douglas AfcLenn; English I^ei. cester ewe™^ Douglas McLeans Romney ram, W. Perry; Komney ewe, G. Allen; black Devon boar, Paterson, Mobsman and Co,