THE Reliance Bank Royal Bathurst Show, which begins on Friday, should once again be a highlight of our social calendar.
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Excellent forward planning will have the showground packed with exhibits and attractions and I think the show organisers have done great credit to themselves and to our lovely city.
The many volunteers who help to put our show together deserve praise as most of them toil in the background and would be embarrassed to be rewarded in any way.
I hope many of our community attend and enjoy their 2017 show.
For the album
THE grand champion ewe in the ultrafine section at the Sydney Royal Easter Show was awarded to a 14.9 micron ewe from Jason Hoadley’s New Plains Stud at Guyong.
She was reserve champion March shorn superfine ewe at Canberra Show recently and her success in Sydney is a feather in the cap for Jason and the Hoadley family.
I thought that the family photo in The Land last week was one for the album.
Friends tell me that Jason is a real goer, a handy shearer and is passionate about the superfine wool industry.
More local highlights at the Sydney Royal include:
* Jake Webster (13 years old), WestRay Southdown, and his grandfather Ross Wilson shared the ribbons in the Southdown section.
* Peter and Janelle Matus, Tara Stud, dominated the Texel competition including supreme exhibit.
* The Tattykeel Gilmores were awarded all four major sashes in the Australian White events.
* The Treanor family collected impressive ribbons in the Border Leicester section with a top ram from their Kildara Glen Stud at Duramana.
What a buy
LAST week’s Schute Bell auction of a 557-acre grazing block four kilometres south of Perthville has set a new benchmark for land in the area.
Two near neighbours paid $1.62 million for the land that has practically no building structures but has long frontage to the main Bathurst/Rockley road. The local buyers were school-mates in Bathurst and will own a large portion each.
THE recent death of Len Truscott in Bathurst reminds us of a long-term water quality specialist with the former Department of Agriculture in Orange.
Len’s advice and ability were greatly valued by many pastoralists and productive water users across the Central West.
His involvement in infrastructure that concerned water use has been valued and appreciated over many years.
Local knowledge
WHEN I attended my first Rural Lands Protection Board meeting at the Havannah Street office on November 8, 2002, the OJD control issue was still red hot and needed a calming approach.
The only members of staff on board from that day who are still in action today are Neville Collins, Paul Medway and yours truly.
Fast forward to the current situation where 90 per cent of ratepayers are not eligible to vote for board members of their choice.
My belief has always been that the greatest asset of rural boards and county councils is local knowledge of staff and decision-makers.
Ratepayers should always be able to elect their councillors and boards as their representatives should be the people that they know and trust.
Rule change
SUPERFINE wool producers will have noted the change of rules that has occurred for inclusion in the Zegna Champion fleece competition.
Producers who use pain relief for mulesing are now eligible to enter fleeces, having been excluded for some years.
We all realise that TriSolfen is a really effective product and that many producers returned to a light mules after reluctantly ceasing the process for a season or two.
Laugh lines
FATHER had been transferred to a new parish and the ladies had arranged a high tea send-off.
The leading lady told him: “We’ll really miss you, Father. No matter who the Bishop sends, he’ll never be as good as you.”
Father was flattered, but assured her that the new pastor would be capable and caring.
“Oh no”, said the lady, “it’s always the same. We’ve had five pastors here in my time, and each one is worse than the one before him.”
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YOU hear what you want to hear.
George was in a foreign country and asked the lady in the travel agency for a mobile number so he could keep in touch with her with his tour details.
She gave him a huge smile and said: “Sex sex wan free sex for tonight.”
George was stunned and excited, til the man behind him in the queue said: “What she just said was 666 136 429.”
(Thanks BK.)