GENERAL NOTES

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 92, 9 July 1927, Page 26

GENERAL NOTES

THE WORLD’S POULTRY CONGRESS The Australian Government has decided to be represented at the World’s Poultry Congress, to be held at Ottawa. To facilitate this, Sydney’s leading poultry journal has opened a list of subscriptions, and called on the different clubs to support it in its efforts to secure the attendance at Ottawa of the Rev. J. T. Wynn, one of New South Wales’ best known writers and authorities on the keeping of poultry. Evidently our Australian friends realise the value that the congress will prove to the poultry industry. New Zealand will be represented' by Mr. IL W. Hawke, of Christchurch, who is at present on a visit to relatives in Cornwall. WHY ARE THE AMERICANS JEALOUS? The Americans are jealous of our wonderful Light Sussex, and quite recently one of their great authorities said he could not imagine the Light Sussex ever being admitted to the American standard. The Light Sussex is an ancient variety—a true Britisher. Why should it not be admitted to the American standard as have other British breeds? I can only conclude that those in power fear its popularity spreading, as it has done in Canada. COMING SHOW The Taumarunui A. and P. Association is holding a poultry show in connection with its winter show, which will be held on Friday and Saturday, July 15 and 16. The club has allocated several special prizes for both pigeons and poultry. Prize money will be paid on a fixed amount, and not on the sliding scale, as other shows. This should be an incentive to fanciers to compete. Mr. Geo. H. Ambler, Auckland, will make the awards. Schedules can be obtained from Mr. Stevenson, show secretary, Taumarunui. CANARY NOTES Schedules are out for the A.Y.C.C. annual open show. Entries close on Monday, July 11, and the committee is looking forward to a record entry. This society has a grand list of cups and trophies, probably second to none in the Dominion. The Davis Cup, presented by Mr. Ernest Davis, the popular patron of the club, has been allotted to the best bird in the show. GOOD PICKING Mr. Les. Belcher, the popular local Yorkshire fancier, had another run success at Hastings, taking eight firsts and practically all the Yorkshire specials, also best in show. A.Y.C.C. SHOW Mr. Tom Brown, the popular Auckland judge, will place the awards at the Yorkshire Club Show, to be held in the Epiphany Hall on Saturday, July 16. Mr. Ernest Davis, the patron, will declare the show open at 3 p.m. A cordial invitation is extended to all fanciers and friends. Mr. J. Tindall, the' well-known South Island poultry judge, is touring the North Island prior to his judging at the Wellington Show, which will be held from July 14 to 16. Quite a boom is being experienced in Light Sussex, scores of birds having changed hands during the last month. This is as I predicted over two years ago. PERSONAL During the week I received a letter from an old friend in Mr. Fred Tootill, manager of Karswood Poultry Food Mills, Staletbridge, England. Mr. Tootill is one of the leading poultry judges and journalists in England, and has also written several books on poultry. His book, “The Modern Minorca,” is well known in New Zealand. In his letter, Mr. Tootill deals at some length with the poultry industry in England, and states that poultry keeping is not so prosperous as it was some five or six years ago, whereas interest on the exhibition side has abated tremendously, unless it be exhibition utility stock. The utilitarian and exhibition breeders are gradually getting closer together, so that in the future Mr. Tootill expects to see a duplication of standards —a separate one for exhibition and one for utility being disposed of.