PALMERSTON SHOW.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 69, 4 November 1911, Page 6

PALMERSTON SHOW.

PEOPLE’S DAY

(Per Press Association.)

Palmerston, November 3

There was a beautiful day and a tremendous crowd at the Manawatu Show. The ground parade was a feature of the show, and provided the finest display of stock ever seen on the ground. The total takings for tiie three days were £IO7B, a decrease of £ls compared to last year, almost entirely due to the falling-off in the takings at the stands. The sum of £G39 was taken at the main gates to-day, a considerable increase on the takings of last People’s Day.

Air E. 1). O’Rorke (Auckland) won the hunters’ competition with Cloister for the third successive year, and the Challenge Cup, valued at 15 guineas, presented by the ladies of Manawatu and Rangitikei districts, becomes his property. At the presentation at the conclusion JVIr O’Rorke said he was prouder of winning the trouphy than he could lie of winning the New Zealand Cup. The same owner’s Kierau was selected to jump off for second place but was withdrawn, Mr O’Rorke being satisfied with winning the cup. Watson’s Yeast defeated Rangitoto for second place. Other competitions were won as folloivs:—

Pony leaning: T. Cameron’s Blue Bell.

Harness Igjrse, style and action: G A. Harrison’s Vao Victis. ,

Lady’s and gentlemen’s hack, judged as a pair : E. Nelson’s Regret and Montana Ring. Lady driver: Aliss G. Robertson. Special prizes were won as follows: Wm. Perry, of Mastorton, wins Levin and Co.’s Lincoln Cup and Qui bell’s Romney Cup outright, and won Short’s Romney Alarsh Challenge Cup of 100 guineas’ value for the second .successive year. If he wins next year lie will win it outright. The Sheep Dip Co.’s Cup was won by Ellis Bros. (Bulls). E. Short’s special prize of £SO for best Romney ram, to be judged for type, wool, and shape, was won by H. S. Hadfield (Paraparaumu) and A. J. Gray (Masterton), a tie, Win. Gibbon (Feilding) being second, and Gray Bros, third. Taranaki Successes. Horses.

Mr Arthur Cliff’s (New Plymouth) Lord Nolan had the distinction of being the best-paced and mannered horse on the ground. In the under 15 hands class G. A. Harrison (Eltham) won out of a very fine lot with Vae Victis. J. S. Oughton (Mount Royal) took the reserve champion in colts foaled since 1908. J. 1). Mitchell (Manaia) also won a first prize in the draught section. Cattle. In Shorthorns Mr G. A. Turner (Eltham) secured first prize and champion for aged bull, bred by Archdeacon Williams, and first prize for bull calved since 1909. In Holsteins Mr Newton King secured a first prize with his two-year-old bull Commodoude Knol.j "also first and second in the yearling bull class out of 24 entries . Ho also secured a first prize with his two-year-old and three-year-old heifers. Butterfat Competition. In the butterfat competition Mr A. H. Halcombe secured second place with 172.)1hs milk, 4.5 test, 7.77021 b fat giving 17.25 milk test, and 194.05 fat points, a total of 211.30. Mi’ W. I. Lovelock owned the winning cow, out of 24 entries. He also secured which secured a total of 218 87 points.