"PERFECT LAMBS”

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19451, 28 March 1933, Page 4

"PERFECT LAMBS”

PHIZE-WINNERS IN NORTH ISLAND SECTION. JUDGES’ FLATTERING COMMENT. By Teie?rapli- Press Association WELLINGTON. March 27. In a competition inaugurated by the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board, with a view to improving the quality of the Dominion’s lambs and educating farmers as to the requirements of the Home trade, the three prizewinning pens in the North Island this year were:— First—Wairarapa pen No. 6. Second—South Hawke's Bay pen No. 8. Third— Manawatu pen No. 31. The entries for the North Island competition arrived in London about the end of January, and special arrangements were made for judging and display on the Smithfleld market. This proved an enormous attraction, and created a very fine advertisement for New Zealand on the Smithfleld market. The Board's London manager iMr R. Forsyth) received congratulations from all sections of the trade, and it was conceded on all sides that this exhibit of lambs was one of the finest even seen on Smithfleld. The Board's London manager says the judges, in commenting on the district exhibit placed first, made the following comment, which is worthy of quotation as indicating the requirements of the Home trade:— “An extraordinarily even run of very choice lambs, remarkably consistent in size, with a complete absence of anything approaching wastefulness. We consider the lambs forming this exhibit to be absolutely Ideal from the butchers' point of view, and we cannot conceive anything more suitable." Reports on other district exhibits contained very flattering comments also. In placing the champion pens, the judges referred to the lambs which formed the three prize-winning pens in the following terms: —"We are of opinion that these were perfect lambs, and it is scarcely conceivable that anything more suitable could possibly be produced for the London trade. These three pens created enormous interest.” The three carcases in the champion pen were reported upon as "Ideal in size, of perfect quality and texture, and make and shape left absolutely nothing to be desired." Entries for the South Island competition are now on the way Home.