WINTER SHOW.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 160, 10 July 1933, Page 8

WINTER SHOW.

KEEN INTEREST.

WEEK-END ATTENDANCES.

ONE-MAN FARM.

Laden with free samples, labouring under a positive burden of chocolates won at the side-shows, hundreds came away from the Winter Show on Saturday'evening perfectly satisfied with the few hours they had spent away from home and the fireside. Saturday was a sort of a "people's day," to borrow an expression from another kind of show. The attendance for the day was over 20,000. Though yesterday was the very worst sort of day. to-day, though still dull and inclined to be rainy, was an imprm* merit, and attendances did not tall oil appreciably. They compare favourably with this time last year. Parties of school children are again in evidence. Some of these have come in from the outlying districts by train. Seventy came from Wcllsford shortly after midday.

House Grown on Farm. What can be produced on a farm managed by one man is nothing short, of amazing. Everyone expects roots, butter, cheese and grains; but no one would be likely to imagine that enough timber to build a nine-roomed house could he produced. Yet such is the caee. A large number of pinus insignis trees were planted in the early days and have grown perhaps 70ft high, and have been cut down and iisckl to build the house. The timber was actually milled and dressed on the farm.

The farm k at Silveidale, and consists of land that was once thought to bo unproductive. Messrs. Jack and Jack, the exhibitors, have displayed practically everything that comes off a farm. The variety of products ranges from woodwork articles to raw wool and cured meats. There are 10 types of vegetables and fruits from the farm, vegetable and grass seeds, cakes, eggs, butter, seedlings, kauri gum, ensilage, knitting, sewing, bread, cured meat, and 313 varieties of jams, pickles and preserves. So good was the display that the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, expressed a wish to rtee the farm. Skating Kinl;. The management of the show have rung the changes again. On Saturday night the Auckland Kennel Club's exhibit finished, and the space it took up has been turned into a ekating rink. This should be an added attraction. The special fruitcake competition was put off until Thursday. Further primary school* cooking competitions were held to-day, and will be again to-morrow.