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Important information about the 2010 Annual General Meeting
Due to illness among the executive, the 2010 Annual General Meeeting will be held on the fourth Tuesday in March 2010. The club apologises for any inconvenience this may cause.
October 2009: It is with great sadness that the Canberra Queanbeyan Poultry Club bids final farewell to three of its Honorary Life Members.
Norrie Wade (awarded Life Membership in 2001)
Norrie was born in Moss Vale and moved to Queanbeyan at the age of 20. He showed poultry for 65 years.
His favourite breeds included Old English Game (large and bantam), Australorp bantams and Silkies.
Norrie was renowned for his beautiful penmanship and over the years, many fanciers walked away from Queanbeyan shows with prize cards written in his superb copperplate script.
Jack Sibley (awarded Life Membership in 2001)
Jack Sibley, of Gundaroo showed poultry for over 60 years.
He learnt how to care for poultry while at school and by looking after the family’s poultry at home.
Throughout his career he bred Plymouth Rocks, Indian Game, Wyandottes (both large and bantams) and Araucanas.
Jack believed breeding and showing poultry was a worthwhile hobby for anybody, no matter what their age.
He showed poultry all over NSW and Victoria and sent birds to Queensland and South Australia to be shown, as well as eggs to Tasmania.
Jack always said talking to other breeders was as rewarding to him as showing poultry, and his quick wit and dry humour will be sadly missed by many fanciers throughout NSW.
Royce Howlett (awarded Life Membership in 2001)
Queanbeyan’s Royce Howlett, showed poultry for 65 years and attended the Royal Easter Show in Sydney for 40 consecutive years from 1956 to 1996. He only missed showing one year at the Queanbeyan Agricultural Show between 1945 and 2005.
Royce bred nine different breeds of large fowl including Australorps, Leghorns, Minorcas, Orpingtons and Rhode Island Reds, and 12 breeds of bantam fowls including Australorps since 1947 and Pekin Bantams since 1949.
During the early 1950s, he developed his own strain of Langshan bantams and was instrumental in the development of that breed.
In 2005, the poultry pavilion at the Queanbeyan Showground was named the Royce Howlett Poultry Pavilion, in his honour.
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