DARGAVILLE JERSEY SHOW.
(Per Press Association.) DARGAVILLE, Oct. 23. The first Jersey Show held in the Dominion took place on the racecourse to-day and was a decided success. There were over 150 entries. The judges--Alessrs S. R. Lancaster (Palmerston North) purebreds; C. Stevens (Maungatapere) grades—were well pleased generally with the exhibits. They described the female classes as fit for any show in the Dominion. The bulls, with the exception of the champion, won a lot of chief prizes. Pedigree Classes —Champion bull, S. C. Colomore Williams; reserve, A. F. Edwards; cow, R. J. Clements; reserve, W. H. Fitness. Points prize: Pedigree, W. H. Fitness; grade, R. E. Clements. Mr. M. McLennan, president of the New Zealand Jersey Cattle Association, in presenting the prizes, congratulated the club on its enterprise, and expressed his surprise at the quality of the cattle, also the wonderful possibilities of the district for dairy produce.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WC19221024.2.54
Bibliographic details
Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18618, 24 October 1922, Page 5
Word Count
149DARGAVILLE JERSEY SHOW. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18618, 24 October 1922, Page 5
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Wanganui Chronicle. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in