RECORD ENTRIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 115, 16 May 1936, Page 13

RECORD ENTRIES.

WAIKATO SHOW. FIXTURE THIS MONTH. i i AIM FOR NEW STANDARDS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, Friday. Once again the entries for the Waikato Winter Show, which will open a season of eight days and nights on Tuesday, May 20, shatter all previous records. So consistently has the show exceeded previous records in recent years that its failure to do so would be surprising. The big exhibition has definitely established itself as the largest of its type in the southern hemisphere, and this year the executive committee justly hopes to attain a new standard, not only numerically, but in the standard and quality of exhibits and entertainment. The* colossal task of judging 1225 entries comprising boxes of butter and crates of cheese from dairy factories all over the Dominion, will commence next Tuesday, and will occupy about five days. Fourteen officers of the Dairy Division of the Department of Agriculture, will be engaged on the work. In other sectiort of the show the entries in some cases have doubled, and even trebled those of last year, a case in point being the photographic section, where the entries total 280, as against 72 last year. Commercial firm? as well as farmers and the general public have come to place their faith in Hamilton s big exhibition as a powerful stimulus to trade and industry, and a reflex of the district's progress and prosperity. A comparson of the entries for this and last year is made in the following table; 1935 figures being given in parenAgriculture 310 (200), horticulture 247 (195). poultry 398 (—). honey 12a (87), home industries 920 (761), needlework 703 (043), school needlework 234 (184) photography 280 (72), art 242 (240). school cookery S3 (30), porkers and bnconers 18 (17). _ In the Sunday schools' section the entries are about 70 in advance of last year, wlule in the general school classes there is an increase of about 000,-bring-ing the increase of entries over last year's total to a substantial figure. " This vear the poultry show has been revived," and its popularity is shown bv the fact that entries total nearly 400. The total increase of entries in the musical, elocutionary and dancing competition amounts to 200. Details of the principal increases In this section, with last year's comparison, are: National dancing 210 (130), elocution 143 (108 , vocal 94 (61), instrumental 5o (J7), operatic dancing 63 (SI).