ANNUAL MEETINGS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16466, 19 June 1919, Page 3

ANNUAL MEETINGS.

OF VARIOUS ASSOCIATIONS,

SPECIAL TO HERALD.

PALMERSTON N., June 19. At the half-yearly meeting of the Milking Shorthorn Association the master of electing judges was loft in the hands of the council. It was decided that judges be instructed not to award the association’s prizes to dehorned animals born after Juno, 1919. The Ayrshire Breeders annual meeting last night resolved that, after closing the Bth herd-hook, no animal should be accepted for entry over one year old. At the dairy factory managers’ annual meeting last night an important lesolutkfti was carried affcctjng the constitution of the association. ' Under- the new arrangement entered into, the business of the association will be conducted by provincial executives answer, able, to the Dominion executive. The next annual meeting will be held at the Waikato Show at Hamilton. A motion was carried favouring the establishment at Ruakura of a school of dairy instruction for managers. At the annual meeting of the Clydesdale Horse Society the officers were elected as follows: President, Mr. Wylie (Sefton); council, North Island, Messrs, Brewer (Okaiwai, AVaipukuruu), Gascoyne (Mara.raekakaho, Longburn); council, South Island, Messrs. Gow (Mosgiel), Taylor, junr. (Oamaru). Shearer (Ashburton), Watson (Canterbury) ; presidents. Messrs. Donald (Featherston), Park (Waikato), Dirties (AVaikouaiti), Thomson (Dunedin); treasurer-, Mr. Hunter (Hastings). It was decided that pressure be brought on the Government to have a Bill passed on the lines of that in force in Great Britain regarding the veterinary examination of°Clvdcsda!c stallions,