RABBIT BREEDERS HOLD SECOND SHOW

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 188, 10 August 1931, Page 8

RABBIT BREEDERS HOLD SECOND SHOW

AWARDS ARE MADE IN HIGH QUALITY EXHIBITS. In conjunction with the Winter Show, the Canterbury Rabbit Breeders’ Asso- j ciation is holding its second annual show in the King Edward Barracks this year. The entries are considered very good, considering the slump. They are numerically equal to last year’s, and the quality is of a high standard. In the opinion of the judge. Miss A. A. Myers, the angoras were the best she had seen for wool. An exceptional buck was entered by Mr A. C. Smart, and a good angora doe came from the Selwyn Angora and Chinchilla Farm. The chinchillas were all of good quality, and a buck exhibited by Mr A. Lawrence was the best in the show. Three ChinRex rabbits, bred in the North Island, were also exhibited. In connection with the show, there were exhibited specimens of articles manufactured from rabbits’ wool and hide. The following were the awards:— Special Prizes. South Island Championships.—Best Angora buck—A. C. Smart’s The Sheik. Best Angora doe—Selwyn Angora and Chinchilla Farm’s Gloria. Best Chinchilla buck—A. Lawrence’s Mairehau Rajah. Best Chinchilla doe —Y. 11. Benton’s Silver Lady. Best Chinchilla —A. Lawrence’s Mairehau Rajah. Best Angora buck—A. C. Smart’s The Sheik. Best Chinchilla—\. H. Benton’s Silver Lady. Best Angora— Selwyn Angora and Chinchilla’s Farm s Gloria. Chinchillas. (Judge: Miss A. A. Myers.) Stud buck (4) —A. Lawrence 1 and 2, Avenel Farm 3. Stud doe (4)—Avenel Farm 1 and 3, A. Lawrence 2. Buck, twelve months and over (11) —L. W. Reed 1, L. C. Hill 2. S. Craig 3. Doe, j twelve months and o\#r (9)—Y. H. Ben-I ton 1, A. Lawrence 2, Avenel Farm 3. Buck, six months and under twelve (6) —Y. H. Benton 1. J. S. Boughen 2, Sunny Glen Angora Farm 3. Doe. six months and pirder twelve (11) —J. S. Boughen 1. Y. M. Benton 2. Selwyn Angora and Chinchilla Farm 3. Buck, under six months (1) —Selwyn Angora and Chinchilla Farm 1. Doe, under six months (2) —S. Craig 1_ H. A. Dawber 2. Doe with litter (1) —il. A. Dawber 1. Pelt on rabbit (3) —Y. H. Benton 1. L. C. Hill 2. H. A. Dawber 3. Sport (S) Y. H. Benton 1. Selwyn Angora and Chinchilla Farm 2. Miss S. Wilson 3. j Angoras. (Judge: Miss A. A. Myers.) Stud buck (5) —A. C. Smart 1. Ray- i burn .Babbitry 2, Selwyn Angora and Chinchilla Farm 3. Stud doe (7) —Selwyn Angora and Chinchilla Farm 1 and 3, A. C. Smart 2. Buck, twelve months and over (3) —J. E. H. Cox 1. L. C. Hill 2. Doe, twelve months and over (4) Selwyn Angora and Chinchilla Farm 1 and 2, L. C. Hill 3. Buck, six months ' and under twelve (3) —Rayburn Uabbitry 1 and 2. Sunny Glen Angora. Farm , 3. Doe, six months and under 12 (o) — ’ Selwyn Angora and Chinchilla Farm 1. Rayburn Rabbitry 2 and 3. Doe. under - six months (4)—A. C. Smart 1. Selwyn ; Angora and Chinchilla Farm 2. A. \V. ! Thorpe 3. Buck, shorn within four . weeks (S) —Rayburn Rabbitry 1 and 3, J. E. 11. Cox 2. Doc, shorn within four weeks (5) —Selwyn Angora and Chin- f clii]|a. Farm J. J. E. H. Cox 2. Doe, shorn within eight weeks (2)—Selwyn Angora and Chinchilla Farm 1. Harden Rabbitry 2. Buck, shorn within twelve weeks (2)—Rayburn Rabbitry 1. Sunny Glen Angora Farm 2. Doe, shorn within twelve weeks (I)—Selwyn Angora and Chinchilla Farm J. Greatest weight of wool, doe shorn within twelve weeks (I)—Selwyn Angora and 1 Chinchilla Farm 1. Greatest weight *of 1 wool, doe under six months (1) —A. C. t Smart 1. Wool (4) —Rayburn Babbitry I, A. Lawrence 1. L. C. Hill 3. Carton wool (2)—Selwyn Angora and Chinchilla Farm I, Rayburn Rabbitry 2. Pelt (1) A. Lawrence 1. t Chinchilla pelt (2)—Selwyn Angora s and Chinchilla Farm 1, Avenel Farm 2. i Pelts, suitable collar and cuffs (2)rrAvenel Farm 1, L. C. Hill 2. Novelty 1 Chinchilla goods (4) —-A. Lawrence 1, 1 Mrs G. C. Bashford 2. Selwyn Angora 15 and Chinchilla Farm 3. Chinchilla £

article, factory-made (3) —Avenel Farm 1 and 2. Pure Angora article (6)—-Mrs H. A. Dawber 1. Avenel Farm 2, Rayburn Rabbitry 3. Part Angora article <4)—Selwyn Angora and Chinchilla Farm 1. Rayburn Rabbitry 2. Avenel Farm u.