NEW ZEALAND AND THE WOOL AWARDS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 10 December 1908, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND AND THE WOOL AWARDS.

THE FRANCO-BRITISH EXHIBI- -. TION.

The Dominion and the Commonwealth. share tho honours in the wool awards, a fact that was readily anticipated by all those who had scon the splendid exhibitions of wool at their courts. There, is no doubt that no countries m the world can grow wool to come near these marvellous productions. Nothing like such a show has been seen before under one roof, arid it is a pity some permanent^abiding place cannot bo found to house them, in some leading^contr/, whore they will always be ! open to inspection. The fle?ces fromNew . South Wales, Queensland, and South Australia have been put in and shown as a collective exhibit." the official in charge deciding upon this course, rather than put individual breeders' fleeces into competition with one another. Victoria leb each breeders' wool; stand on its own bottom as did the Dominion, and West Austfalia, and Tasmania. The following are the- results:— ' . New Zealand Wools—James Fay and , Co,, Wellington; R. D. D. McLean. | Maraekakaho. Gold Medal.—Pyne and j Co., Christchurch; Gear Meat Pres orv- : ing and Freezing Company, Ltd., Wellington. Silver Medal.—H. J. Bourko and Co. A "special word of praise is due to the snlendid case of fleeces from the j Maraekakako station, containing one '

each of - uro merino, half-bred, fine Leiccstei", oi'dinary Leicester, three-quarter-bred Lincoln, medium Lincoln and coarso Lincoln. The Gear Freezing Comnany, Messrs.Bourke and Co., Fay and Co.. and Py.no and Co., are all.well to the front v/itli their sli].>es. ! | I I i