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wwswbpw p j a14 tribune june 11 1986 hawkinssimpson wed this weekend by evelyn milsted gormley congratulations to miss karen hawkins daughter of mr and mrs rae hawkins and mr mark simpson who will be married in the missionary church on saturday june 14 they have bought mrs deb bakers house mrs geraldine brillinger is now home after spending several weeks in various hospitals mr and mrs vernon mcllroy and marilyn of palmerston spent the weekend with mr and mrs harold wideman mrs ray winger of listowel vi sited her parents mr and mrs frank bennett on the weekend mr and mrs paul bossert of buffalo visited her mother mrs edith steakley mr and mrs george sider of mainfleet enjoyed the weekend with her sisters misses velma and jean brillinger mr and mrs earl wideman have sold their home and will move into parkview village later on at the bank breaking service ai the missionary church on sunday night 560 was raised to help mis sionary children this was a re cord high the annual missionary church and sunday school picnic will be held at 615 pm on thursday at willow springs camp there will be a pot luck supper school year calendar the york region board of education approved its 1986- 87 school year at a recent meeting the 12 months will consist of 197 school days com mencing on tuesday sept 2 1986 and ending on tuesday june 30 1987 school holidays will be as follows thanksgiving day monday oct 13 christmas vacation monday dec 22 to sunday jan 4 inclusive mid winter break monday march 16 to friday march 20 inclusive good friday april 17 easter monday april 20 and victoria day may 18 new zealand farm tour revealing by jim rae just a few lines about our trip to new zealand and australia to attend the fourth world red poll congress cattle held in christ- church nz in february- arriving in auckland on feb 14 local breeders welcomed us and took us to our hotel for a week we toured the north island home to more than twothirds of new zealands population of ab out 3 million farms ranged from about 600 acres to 35000 in spring septem ber october when lambs are born there are about 679 million sheep in new zealand last year 39 million sheep were killed for meat this year sheep prices have dropped by a third at a sale we went to the best sheep wheighing about 80 ponds sold for 20 forty to 50 ponders sold for 1250 breeding ewes went for 7 and old ewes for 3 this is hardly enough to pay for trucking and sale costs new zealand farmers also have 45 million beef cattle and 25 mil lion milking cows i a typical farm had 3000 ewes and 250 head of cattle the best land is expected to produce about 1000 kilograms of beef per hec tare 2200 pounds per 247 acres a year in pastures deer farms are also common in new zealand venison is much more expensive than lamb sell ing at 7 a kilo 318 a pound parts of the country especially on the north island are extreme ly mountainous but grass grows to the peeks sheep do well here they have no natural predators such as wolves or coyotes 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