LAMBS FOR EXPORT.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 18027, 23 May 1930, Page 9

LAMBS FOR EXPORT.

ROYAL SHOW AWARDS. SMITHFIELD JUDGES’ REPORT. EXCELLENT QUALITY. By the last English mail the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board received a report from its London manager regarding the display and judging on Smithfleld market of the iambs ex the -sixth Royal, Show held at Invercargill in December last. The Board offers annually special prizes at the Royal Agricultural Show for fat lambs most suitable for our Dominion’s export trade and the type most desired to keep up our reputation on the London market. The lambs are judged alive on the showground and prizes are awarded by the Meat Board for the best pens. All the lambs entered in this class are then killed and shipped Home to the Board’s London manager w'ho arranges a special display of them on the Smithfleld t market. The quality of the carcases ‘ is judged by three judges appointed by the Imported Meat Trade Association Incorporated and further prizes for the best lot of three carcases as judged on Smithfleld are also awarded by the Board. This year the winning pens were as follows: Judged alive on -showground.— First prize: Lot. No. 655, Wm. Swale;' Limehills, £ls; second prize-, lot No. 6‘64, Jas. Young, Wallacetown, £10; third prize, lot No. 651, T. E. Paterson, Winton, £5. Award on Smithfleld Market. First prize, lot No. 655, Wm. Swale, Limehills, £ls; second prize, lot No. 660, J. R. Manson, Otautau, £10; third prize, lot No. 6-68 c, L. 5. Gilkison, Castlerock, £5. The Board’s London manager reports that 51 lambs entered in this class arrived. Home in excellent order and were displayed on the stall cf Messrs H. S. Fitter and Sons, Smithfleld market on March 26, and made a very good show, which attracted a good deal of attention on the market-. The whole exhibit was purchased by Messrs Hammetts, a large firm of London retailers and they made a good show of them in their shop windows. Judges’ Report. The report of the three judges appointed by the Imported Meat Trade Association Incorporated—Messrs R. F. Garnham, W. T. Johnson and D. G. Messent—is as fqllows:—“Considering the early date of the show and the backwardness of the season the exhibits in this class were in surprisingly good condition. Apart from a few pens,- the quality was excellent and what is more important, although the lambs were full of meat they carried comparatively little w'aste fat and were essentially butchers’ meat. There is no question that the Southdown Cross of purebred are the most suitable for the London trade.—Our awards are:—, First prize, lot No. 665.—Tw0 perfect little lambs, full of meat and not too fat. Short legs, thick shoulders and good backs. One fell away a shade on the legs. In our opinion this pen was the most suitable for the London trade. Second prize, lot No. 660.—Three very good lambs full of meat and not too fat. Short legs, thick shoulders and good backs. Very good cutting lambs. Third prize, lot No. 668c —'Good lambs, full of meat and not too fat. Short legs, thick shoulders an'd good backs.