ROMNEY MARSH SHEEP

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 105, 6 May 1933, Page 20 (Supplement)

ROMNEY MARSH SHEEP

At lhe annual meeting of the Romney Marsh Sheep Breeders’ Assoeia tion Mr. Egcrton Quested said they could congratulate themselves on thr year’s working. They had ’ exported 263 ewes and rams, against 160 the previous year. He had talked to sev oral London butchers about Kent sheep, and they all said that the sheep were all right, “but you have to breed them smaller.” Instead of having b’g 12st. (stone of 81bs.) wethers, animals of fist, or J Ost. would be very much more saleable. He wonaered whether something could be done in that mat ter. They might instruct judges at the shows not to pay too much attention to the big sheep, but to the com pact, kindly sheep which was going to mature early. He thought they might usefully encourage breeders of the Romney to add a little more quality and not so much quantity. Air. Ashley Stevens exhibited a pos’ age stamp of the Falkland Islands showing the picture or a ram with the words Romney Marsh Ram underneath, and the years 1833-1933, and in this connection read a letter from a friend stating that this new stamp is the first to depict a sheep to Indicate one of the staple industries of a country. These special stamps are to commem orate the fact of one hundred years of British government. Used stamps from the Islands are rather scarce as only a few of the inhabitants ever wanted to <•.*••••<