FRIESIAN BREED

Taranaki Daily News, 5 October 1929, Page 10

FRIESIAN BREED

/MEETING OF TARANAKI BRANCH. SUBSIDIES AT EGMONT SHOW. A meeting of the committee of the Taranaki branch of the - New Zealand Friesian Breeders’ Association Was held in Stratford yesterday, Mr. C. A. Marchant presiding. The Egmont. A. and' P. Association wrote asking the branch to forward its promised subsidy on prizes allotted at the 1928 Hawera show. The amount was stated to be about. £6. The chairman-said he had no knowledge of any promise and was rather surprised that the amount stated :to-be due as subsidies, was so large. The tendency of the branch of recent years had been to' reduce such contributions and the present demand came rather as a surprise to him. Assuming- that we had, offered similar subsidies to other A. and P. shows, we would 'have been, in .financial difficulties,” he said. ; ' , . ‘Memb.'ts said they could remember no promise as indicated in the letter. To, Mr. H. J. Marchant, the secretary said there was no record of the matter on the branch’s file. . In order to arrive At an early adjustment of the position and to clear up any misunderstanding, the matter was referred to Mr; H. ; E. Johnson to interview the Egmont A. and P. Association and report to the. branch. . ■- An apology was received' from Mr,; H. E;- Johnson, Tokabra, upon whose behalf the secretary'. put ■ forward; the suggestion that a meeting df representatives of all purebred breed societies should be .held during the Royal Show in December to discuss inequalities in the system of pay-out in vogue at dairy factories in New Zealand. The suggestion was briefly discussed and approved. The meeting- decided to communicate the idea to the Dominion secretary of the Friesian Association asking Mr. Kalaugher to circularise other breed societies with a view to promoting such a conference. The New Zealand Council advised that £5O in prize money had been allotted for the best provincial group of Friesiaiis at the forthcoming Royal Show. Members felt it would be impossible to exhibit extensively as the show was to be held in the South Island. Mr. W. C. Clement, Eltham, wrote accepting the office of an executive member of the branch. It was announced that the branch had donated cups to the Stratford, Hawera and New Plymouth A. and P. shows for ...competition among Friesian calves reared under the Boys’ and Girls’ Agricultural Clubs. As New Plymouth would be the last show in Taranaki, another cup. donated by Mr. C. A. Marchant, would be offered for competition to select the champion calf from winners at the three Taranaki shows. KING’S THEATRE, STRATFOP.D. COMEDY AND DRAMA. ■ The new version of “Tillie’s Punctured Romance” will be at the King’s lheatre to-night. Some of us remember Tillie. Most of us have but ,a vague recollection. She’s not anything like she used to be. Her romance is punctured to an entirely different tune. .Circuses and war pfay a great part in the little girl’s life this time. She goes frdm roaring lions to roaring cannons and how she goes! The treat of your young life with W. C. Fields and Chester Conklin with Louise Fazenda copping the title role. The rest of the cast is made up of old-timers that know their comedy high and wide. Eddie Sutherland, he who,, directed “Behind the Front” and “We’re in the Navy Now,” wielded the megaphone. Is it possible for a man’s mind to be so impaired that while he is perfectly normal in most respects, he falls in love with, and re-marries, under a name to which he has no claim, a woman he does not recognise as the wife he had cast out twenty years previous ? The answer will be found in the First NationalBritish production, “Somehow Good,” which will be shown' at the King’s Theatre to-night only. Fay Compton, who enacts the part of the wife, has never given a more convincing screen performance. Stewart Rome is the husband and Dorothy Boyd has an important role.