GAINING IN FAVOUR

Southland Times, Issue 22993, 12 September 1936, Page 14

GAINING IN FAVOUR

RED POLLS POPULAR IN AUSTRALIA While there has been steady and sustained progress in the development of the Red Poll breed in Great Britain, these animals have also been forging ahead in a marked manner in the British Dominions, and not least in Australia and New Zealand. The way in which the Red Polls have captured the support of graziers in New South Wales and Queensland is most striking. It is almost sufficient to say that the Sydney Royal Show this year attracted nearly 100 entries of high-class representatives of the breed. Reports indicated that the increasing body of Red Poll breeders in Australia are displaying a degree of enthusiasm, the result of a close knowledge of the worth of the Red Poll, which has been most helpful in bringing about the much stronger position it now occupies in Australia. There can be no question but that a great future is in store for the Red Poll breed in Australia, and the big developments that are confidently anticipated will be traceable to the praiseworthy activities of those who are taking a leading part in the progressive movements for which they are directly responsible for the greater extension of the breed. With a steady change of opinion in favour of polled beasts in New Zealand, the prospects of the Red Poll breed enjoying greater popularity in the future seems almosrt assured. This is especially so in view of lessons learned from one sister Dominion, which is making a strong bid for greater supremacy in the pastoral field.