Palmerston Show.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3872, 11 May 1906, Page 3

Palmerston Show.

An important feature at the winter Show, Palmerston North, is the poultry, pigeon, and canary show of the Manawatu Poultry Association, affiliated with the North Island Poultry Association. The prize list is to hand from Mr J. C. Lane, secretary, Palmerston North, for perusal, and there is no mistaking the genuioeopen-handcd support afforded the exhibitor in the poultry and waterfowl division. Prizes : For ten entries the first prize ia 15s, second 10s, third 4s, with a large number of cash specials of £1 and £1 10s. One’s eye is attracted by the North Island Poultry Association’s championship prizes, also the N.Z. Wyandotte Club specials of £l2 12s. Last year the total entries made upwards of 1200 exhibits, and with the indications of support given to the show for June next 9000 square feet has been set apart. Poultry has perhaps only received little more khan passing attention in

the past, but a change must be coming. Tbare is such profit in poultry, that the hen and her products will be no longer overlooked. This colony, according to the N.Z. Year Book, for six months in 1904 imported eggs to the value of £B9B. and for the twelve i months of 1904 eggs to the tune of £3407, which might have been wholly produced in New Zealand. There is the disposal of birds for market. According to a large buyer the averave price for live birds suitable for the table fer the last six months runs about 5d per lb., and the wei.his per pair 7lbs to lOlbs. Purely there must be an awakening to the possibilities cf the industry and to the all-round progress that will follow.