WINTER SHOW.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 160, 8 July 1932, Page 5

WINTER SHOW.

NEXT WEEK'S ATTRACTIONS. MANY NOVEL FEATURES. BIG AEROPLANE SECTION. Entries in the competitive classes at the Auckland YVJntcr Show, which will lip held in the Contra! wharf sheds from Wednesday next until the following Saturday week, ere already more than 50 up on lust year's total. The exhibition will be bigger than ever before, and its scope will be whler —significant portent of a rt-vival of prosperity in both pastoral and industrial r-phoros. The total of entries will be not far short of 5000. In the dairy produce section fior butter mid cheese the entries total 2O'>, while the koine industries section and that for commercial exhibits show a marked iut-ri-ase. The show will open to the public from one o'clock on the afternoon of July 13, and it will be cflicinllv opened ill the evening by the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe. In addition to the ganeral seetioira there will be a dog show ill connection with the Auckland Kennel Club on the ftiwt four days, and a poultry show under the auspices of the Auckland Poultry Club on 'tiie last four. Record entries have boon received for each of these. The novel features of this year's exhibition include a display of native handicraft and produce from Rarotongw and the islands of Nine, Aitutaki and Mangaia, and a special display arranged bv the Auckland Aero Club and the Model Aeroplane Club. A eeries of competition flights has been arranged for model aeroplanes, and entries for theso have been received from clubs in all parts of New Zealand. The aerial section bids fair to be a very attractive feature of the show. An area of 100 feet by 00 feet has been allotted to it, and the wall* and ceiling have been designed to represent the Mangere aerodrome. A model of a typical airport has been built, the buildings being designed from those of the great 'drome at Croydon, England.

The primary producing sections include a" exhibit ofi overseas butter from all parts of the- world. It is proposed to have an official grading and tasting of the samples on July 1"). They represent the produce of Denmark, Latvia, Estlionia, Siberia, Finland, Sweden, Holland, the Argentine Republic, South Africa, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia and Fiji.