FACTS ABOUT LAMB.

Wairarapa Age, 11 August 1928, Page 5

FACTS ABOUT LAMB.

WAIRARAPA’S SUPERIORITY ADMITTED A CANTERBURY PLAINT “Our Canterbury friends are worrying about the quality of their fat lambs, and are being driven to admit that the North. Island is producing a better article,” saifl. Mr. G. H. Perry at the annual meeting of the Masterton A. and P. Association yesterday. “Some of them,” .he added, “have been alleging that this state of affairs is due to their exporting their best Southdowns to the North Island and taking our old ewes in return. As a recent article in the ‘New Zealand Farmer’ pointed out, however, we are breeding three and a half times as many Southdowns in the North Island as are being bred in the South Island. I agree with the South Island people that our lambs are of better quality than theirs. Only the other day, a high authority in the meat trade told me that on their merits our best Wairarapa lambs should fetch a farthing a pound more than, the best that Canterbury can produce. Why then, do they still get a price from Id to lid better than we do? The only reason I can suggest is that a fictitious significance attaches to the term “Prime Canterbury.” This is a matter in which we have a lot to gain from making the truth known as widely and as far afield as possible.”