WAIRARAPA BIRD SHOW

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 July 1938, Page 8

WAIRARAPA BIRD SHOW

DISPLAYS AT CARTERTON EXCELLENT STANDARDS SET. LIST OF PRIZE AWARDS. ("Times-Age” Special.) The recently established Wairarapa Poultry, Pigeon and Cage Bird Society which opened its two-day show at Carterton today did so under most favourable circumstances. The Society has been successful in attracting entries from as far distant as Hastings, Hawera, Taihape, Wanganui, Palmerston North and Lower Hutt, as well as from all parts of the Wairarapa district. The show will be open also from 9 a.m. on Friday till 10 p.m. There is a representative attendance of poultry breeders and enthusiasts supplemented by large numbers of the general public. There is a particularly good display of birds.

Approximately 400 entries were rereceived for the various classes and officials of the Society expressed themselves pleased with, the support accorded the show by breeders. The principal officers of the society are as follow: —Patron. Mr Ben Roberts, M.P.; president, Mr G. A. Edge; executive committee, Messrs G. A. Edge (chairman), - J. Wilson, J. M. Nicholls, O. Andersen (secretary), J. Woodbury, J. Gibbons, J. H. Good, F. Curry, Miss Tauciier.

The judges were as follow! —Games and bantams, Mr R. A. Williams (Mangatainoka). Fancy and utility poultry ans ducks, Mr O. Anderson (Carterton); pigeons and cage birds, Mr James Nicholls (Carterton). The following are the awards: — FANCY POULTRY. Old English game (black red cock, dark legs): J. Laurenson 1, O. Andersen 2 and 3, G. Show highly commended. Partridge hen, dark legs: W. Harding 1, T. Petersen ■2, O. Andersen 3. Black Red Cockerel, dark legs: T. Petersen 1, O. Andersen 2, W. Harding 3, F. E. Allen h.e. Partridge pullet, dark legs: O. Andersen 1 and 3, W. Harding 2 and very highly commended. Black red cock, white legs: W. Harding 1, T. Petersen 2, J. Laurenson 3, O. Andersen highly commended. Wheaten or partridge hen, light legs: W. Harding 1, J. Laurensen 2 and 3. Black red cockerel, light legs: J. Laurenson 1, T. Petersen 2, F. E. Allen 3. Wheaten of partridge pullet, light legs: J. Laurenson 1, -2 and 3. Duckling, cock: G. Snow 1, W. Harding 2; hen, G. Snow 1; pullet, W. J. Wilkins 1. Pile cock: W. Harding 1. Spangled hen, W. Harding 1. Game, A.0.V.-, hen, F. E. Allen 1, Indian game bird, cock: F. P. Smith 1; hen, F. T. Smith 1; cockerel, F. T. Smith 1; pullet, F. T. Smith 1. 1 BANTAMS. Black-red. hen: Miss; N. Anderson 1; cockerel!,, W. J. Wilkins 1; cock, J. Rusden Salt 2. Duckwing, hen, J. R. Salt 1; cockerel, J. R. Salt 1; pullet, J. R. Salt 2; .Spangled cock, Miss N. Anderson 1, P. Smith 2, G. Snow 3, Miss C. Andersen h.c. Spangled hen: G. Snow 1, P. Smith 2, Miss C. Anderson 3; cockerel, J. Geary 1. ROSE COMBS. Black cock: P. Smith 1 and 3, J. R. Salt 2; hen, J. R. Salt 1, A. Brattle 2 and 3. PEKINS. Buff cock: Miss H. Harding 1; hen, Miss H. Harding 1; cockerel, S. C. Sunkel 1; black cock, Miss H. Harding 1; hen, Miss H. Harding 1. CHILDREN’S CLASS. (Birds Owned by Boy or Girl under .16). Clean-legged hen: J. Geary 1. Fea-ther-legged cock: W. Lee 1; hen, W. Lee 1; cockerel, W. Lee 1; pullet, W. Lee 1. ' MINORCAS. Black hen: P. H. Mummery 1, W. F. Stent 2; cockerel, E.-Williams 1, W. F. Stent 2, P. H. Mummery 3; pullet, P. H. Mummery 1, E. Williams 2, F. Sunkel 3. LEGHORNS. White hen: Mrs B. Sewell 1, W. F. Stent 2; cockerel, Miss M. Taucher 1, R. Milton 2, W. E. Davies 3; pullet, Mrs B. Sewell 1 and 3, R. Miiton 2. ANCONAS. Cockerel: W. Lee, Senior, 1; pullet, W. Lee Senr. 1. WYANDOTTES. White hen, Mrs W. O. Gould 1, T. B. Holdaway 2; cockerel, T. B. Holdaway 1; pullet, T. B. Holdaway 1, Mrs W. O. Gould 2. ORPINGTONS.

. Black cock: W. Lee 1, G. A. Edge 2; hen, G. A. Edge 1, J. H. Sutton 2, W. Lee 3; pullet, N. J. Wilkins 1, J. H. Sutton 2, G. A. Edge 3. SUSSEX. Light cock, H. A. Otto 1. RHODE ISLAND REDS (Single Comb).

Red cock: T. B. Holdaway 1, Mrs W. O. Gould 2, G. A. Edge 3; hen, T. B. Holdaway 1, J. H. Sutton 2, G. A. Edge 3; cockerel, G. Edge 1 and 3, E. Williams 2; pullet, J. H. Sutton 1 and 3, G. Edge 2. HAMBURGS. Golden pencilled hen: A. S. Coates 1 and 2. ' ■; SILKIES. Cock: J. R. Salt 1; hen, J. R. Salt 2. NOVICE CLASS. Heavy breed pullet: C. Holland 1; light breed pullet, C. Holland 1. GIFT CLASS. Cock: W. Lee 1. UTILITY POULTRY SECTION. LEGHORNS. White cock: T. W. Barnes 1, A. A. Hoare 2; hen, H. Goodin 1, A. Hoare 2, Miss M. Taucher 3, A. Hoare v.h.c., W. F. Stent h.c. Cockerel: A. Hoare 1, 2 and 3, W. F. Stent v.h.c., Miss M. Taucher h.c. Pullet: H. Goodin 1.

A. Hoare 2, Miss Taucher 3, A. Hoare v.h.c., E. Williams h.c. Brown cock: Mrs E. G. Grantham 1. Hen: T. W. Barnes 1. Cockerel: T. W. Barnes 1. Pullet: T. W. Barnes 1. A.V. Dubbed Cock: J. Wilson 1. MINORCAS. Black hen: P. H. Mummery 1, T. W. Barnes 2, W. F. Stent 3; cockerel, P. H. Mummery 1, E. Williams 2, W. F. Stent 3; pullet, P. H. Mummery 1 and 2, T. W. Barnes 3, W. F. Stent v.h.c. ANCONAS. Cock, W. Lee 1; hen, W. Lee 1. ORPINGTONS. Black hen: L. B. Doig 1, G. A. Edge 2, H. T. Hayes 3; cockerel, J. H. Sutton 1 and 2, G. Edge 3; pullet, J. H. Sutton 1 and 3, G. Edge 2. WYANDOTTES. White hen: T. Holdaway 1; white cockerel, T. Holdaway 1. • SUSSEX. Cockerel: H. A. Lucas 1; pullet, H. A. Lucas 1. PLYMOUTH ROCKS. White cock: J. R. Salt 1; hen, J. RSalt 1; cockerel, J. R. Salt 1; pullet, J. R. Salt 1. AUSTRAL ORPS. Hen: Mrs L. A. Goodin 1; cockerel. ’ W. F. Stent 1, E. Edlin 2, Mrs L. A. Goodin 3. Pullet: W. J. Wilkins 1 E. Edlin 2, W. F. Stent 3.