NO LAMBS TO GO TO LONDON

Southland Times, Issue 23947, 13 October 1939, Page 8

NO LAMBS TO GO TO LONDON

EXPORT COMPETITION

MODIFIED DISTRICT CONTESTS WILL BE HELD No lambs will be shipped to London from New Zealand for judging this year and consequently the New Zealand Meat Producers Board s challenge shields for the North and South Islands will not be awarded. This is in accordance with a modified plan for the conduct of the annual export lamb competition that has been decided on by the board. However, district contests will be held and for each of these the board will grant £lO as prize-money. The Southland Agricultural and Fastoral Association received advice from the board yesterday that the local associations will arrange for the selection of the 10 best pens, comprising 30 lambs, after killing. It is hoped that there will be large entries as this will provide a wide choice in the selection of the pens. All lambs must be docked and the individual weight of each is not to exceed 361 b frozen weight. Each association will organize a held day at the freezing works on the day the lambs are killed; all lambs entered for the competition must be killed together on that particular day. The field day will give farmers the opportunity of seeing the carcasses of lambs after they are killed and of comparing the quality. The board’s supervising graders will, if required, be available to judge the entries on the hooks. The agricultural and pastoral association in each district will be the controlling body. The collection, tagging, cataloguing, and killing of the entries will be attended to by the associations. Entries from each farmer are to be limited to two pens of lambs and not more than two pens may be entered from one farm. Each pen is to consist of three lambs and the competition is confined to lambs bred for export and not for stud purposes. . Neither the board’s Challenge Shiejd for the best district display of lambs nor the cash prizes for the best individual lots in each island will be awarded. Diplomas for presentation to the owners of each of the best 10 pens selected to represent their district’s entry will be issued by the board, which will make a grant of £lO to the controlling association in each district from which an entry is received. The Dominion has been divided into the following districts for the purposes of the competition:—South Island.— Nelson, Marlborough, North Canterbury, Mid-Canterbury, South Canterbury, North Otago, Central Otago, South Otago, Eastern Southland, Southland; North Island.—North Auckland, Auckland, Waikato, Hawera, Wanganui, Wayerley, Feilding, Manawatu, Wairarapa, Hawke’s Bay, Southern Hawke’s Bay, Wairoa, Poverty Bay.