VISIT ABROAD

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 254, 27 October 1938, Page 5

VISIT ABROAD

MR. S. S. TIMBS RETURN TROPHIES FOR WANGANUI SHOW Three trophies for competition in the stock classes at next month’s Wanganui show were brought from England by Mr. S. S. Timbs, of Wanganui, when he returned this week. Mr. Timbs, as in previous years, will be the judge o£ the New Zealand chilled beef championship and the fat cattle sections. One trophy purchased in England was presented by Freeman R. Jackson and Co., for the champion beast most suitable for the retail meat trade, another is the Wanganui Master Butchers’ trophy and the third the trophy presented by the Oxford and District Master Butchers’ Association. Mr. and Mrs. Timbs left Wanganui six months ago on a health recruiting trip for Mrs. Timbs. On arrival m England they went to St. Heliers in the Channel Islands, to visit relatives, and later visited Oxford where Mr. Timbs was the guest of the Oxford and District Master Butchers' Association, at a dinner, when the association presented to Mr. Timbs a trophy for the New Zealand Chilled Beef championship to be conpeted for at the forthcoming Wanganui A. and F. Show.

At the dinner speeches were made by Mr. John McLumpha, representative of the New Zealand Meat Producers Board, executive members of the association, and city councillors. References were made to the work being carried out by the Wanganui A. and P. Association in fostering and encouraging the New Zealand chilled beef industry, and compliments were paid to the fine average quality ot New Zealand lamb and butter and the successful publicity being carried out in Britain by the New Zealand Meat Board.

During a visit to Scotland, Mr Timbs met many butchers and farmers. At a fat stock sale in Edinburgh he met the Earl of Rosebery, an expert on the Scottish system of crossbreeding, who explained to him how the various types of fat lambs on sale were bred to suit variations in soil and climate. About 3500 sheep, drawn from all parts of Scotland, were disposed of at the sale. After visiting Devon and Somerset, Mr. Timbs went to London, where he met Mr. A. Hamilton Smithfield judge of Wanganui chilled beef, Mr. R. Forsyth, C.M.G., manager of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board, and others associated with the meat trade.

Mr. and Mrs. Timbs spent their forty-second wedding anniversary in Ilfracombe, North Devon, staying at the same hotel in which they spent their honeymoon. They returned to New Zealand impressed with Britain’s progress and the prosperous conditions existing there. They met with a warm welcome wherever they went in England. They were impressed with the happy lives of the country people in England, but the speed and rush of city life made life in Wanganui seem very attractive on their return. Visit to Germany Referring to the German purges, Mr. Timbs asked a German woman for her opinions regarding the drastic measures adopted. Her reply was that the purges were a necessary evil, for Germany realised that certain elements had to be destroyed. Germany had the will to survive and to do this she had to remove all obstacles in her path. The Germans were firmly convinced that their greatest potential enemy was Russia, and everything was being done to meet the position. The attack on and expulsion of the Jews, whom the Germans believed were closely allied with Russia, were steps taken internally, to prepare Germany for any possible encounter with the Power on her eastern borders. Germans met by Mr. Timbs on his travels expressed the opinion that Germany and England should face the menace of Communism together. The Germans appeared to be with Herr Adolf Hitler to a man, said Mr. Timbs. To the Germans Herr Hitler was supreme and in the eyes ol’ his people he could do no wrong. They placed implicit faith in him just as Christians pinned their faith in the Bible.