GENERAL NEWS.
■ ,*- — . BACON PIGS AT THE SHOW. Messrs T. H. Green and Co. , bacon-curers, who bought all the bacon pigs entered for ! the Association and " Canterbury Times" j prizes at the Metropolitan Show, supply the following as the dead weights of the various exhibits : — Six half-bred Tamworths, three of which were pigged on May 1 and three on May 20, shown by Mr James Dunlop, averaged 1641 b; three Berkshires, shown by Mr F. Hubbard, averaged 1611 b; three Yorkshires, shown by the Sunnyside Asylum, averaged 1811 b; and twelve half-bred Tamworths, shown by Mr H. Stiiart, averaged 174i1b. Three of Mr Stuart's pigs won the first and special prize in the bacon-, ers' class.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6650, 23 November 1899, Page 3
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