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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17607, 24 October 1931, Page 14

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rjATTLE from the Prince of Wales’ ranch in Alberta won the Grand jChamplon.,Pennant, 11 first prizes, one second prize, and three third prizes at the annual provincial show.. Auckland’s Dairy Production. ’ Dairy production" in' tljc "Auckland Province'for the present season continues, to be in uevange 'of that of 1930-8.1, 'the increase during July and August'-in terms .of but.terl'at being 15.5 J per'-cent. The -statistics for August * reveal -an increase in the Auckland output compared, with the corresponding-month of last season-of -6.t-4.pef -cent, on a butterfat basis. .. Eyeland-Sheep in New. .Zealand. . Comment on Hydatid sheep in New Zealand was made at the thirtieth intorhational • •-conference of- sheep breeders, organised by the National Sli6ep Breeders’' Assoeintiqn^-by Dr. J. E.-Nicholas', Ph.D., .M.Sc., F.K.S.E., of-the AVool’ Industries BbscaTcli Association, Beadingly,-. Leeds, who had visited. Empire countries.noted ,f.o?* .the production- of wool, states the London correspondent of -the .Otago Daily Times, : ■ .f'Thd popularity-of thd Ityeland has ! liicJeate.clj'' -lib ‘sai'dj “find wHI; probably increase still more. In the eveut of a-breeder being unable, to get rid of the whole of his crossbred lamb crop, the presence of dark fibres,in the fleece is regarded with concern in the stock retailed for breeding, and therefore the Ityeland hah'been'encouraged by many breeders. It scorns to mo that within a comparatively short time the Ityeland breeders of New Zealand hnvo succeeded in' selecting a far more attractive and stylish wool than is found in this .country.”