METROPOLITAN SHOW

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22195, 11 September 1937, Page 11

METROPOLITAN SHOW

SEVENTY-FIFTH JUBILEE A LIBERAL SCHEDULE With the Metropolitan Show, which is to be held on the Addington Show Grounds this year, the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association will celebrate its seventy-fifth jubilee. j The record is a notable one. Though the first show was held in Market square, in 1853, the formation of the existing organisation dates back to 1882. The 1862 show was sufficiently successful to justify the formation of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association. What is now Sydenham Park formed the location of the first showground. 14 acres being purchased at £l2O an acre, it being recorded in the minutes covering the transaction that £IOOO was borrowed at 12JJ per cent.—the current rate. It is 50 years ago since the Sydenham grounds were used, and the show this year will be the fifty-first held on the Addington Grounds. In view of the particular occasion the committee of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association has aimed to make the Jubilee Show this year a special occasion, and with that aim in view has issued a very liberal schedule. The scale of prize money set for a Royal Show has been retained, and in the stud stock sections there appear many new classes. In all the other varied phases of the show the association is attempting to bring together a display worthy of the special occasion, and there should be this year a bumper entry of stock. Copies of the schedule may be obtained from the office of the association.