Labour Week-end Attractions

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31195, 20 October 1966, Page 20

Labour Week-end Attractions

A century of progress will be celebrated by the Northern Agricultural and Pastoral Association with a two-day centennial show at Rangiora tomorrow and Saturday. The show will be the first of a carnival programme of Labour Week-end attractions that have become a traditional part of the district’s entertainments.

The programme includes the second day of the North Canterbury Racing Club’s meeting at the Rangiora raceway on the Monday ; a combined fun carnival; a horse jumping championship; and a Kennel Association championship which will provide another family picnic-day outing at the Rangiora Showgrounds on the Monday. Months of planning and preparatory work by many individuals and organisations will ensure that the Rangiora show will be a worthy centennial occasion.

Breeders and exhibitors have been working, too, to see that stock and exhibits are at their best for the show. Entries, exhibits and special displays will be coming to the show from widely scattered parts of the province and even further afield.

In keeping with the prestige that the association has as the second oldest of its type in the province, the show is highly regarded by many exhibitors of stock as an excellent trial ground for the Canterbury show in Christchurch a few weeks later.

Such is the standard at Rangiora that many of the stock entries there have subsequently taken major placings and championships at the “Metropolitan.”

' While the show still fulfils its primary function as a competition of rural interests, especially as a measure of stock improvement, it provides other entertainments that should cater for all tastes.

The organising committee has taken steps to make this year’s show even more attractive by arranging for many special displays and entertainments.

Outstanding support has resulted in record entries for the competitive classes and unprecedented demands for space for industrial and commercial displays.

The show will provide an ideal family outing in pleasantly situated and attractive grounds now looking their best.

As well as interesting those with a rural background, the show has much to offer the city dweller. It is a time when city children can see a diversity of animals; and there are sections with a wider appeal, such as photography, models, fancy work, home and dairy produce, cookery, and industrial stands, and many special centennial features. For the children there is the pleasure of sitting behind the controls of massive machinery, not to mention all the fun-of-the-fair with its sideshows, merry-go-rounds, candy-floss, and a host of other equally exciting items. The Rangiora chapter of Jaycee and the junior committee of the Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Horse Society have combined to provide a programme of entertainments at the showgrounds on the Monday also. To supplement the attractions of the horse jumping show, the Jaycee chapter has arranged a diversified programme of novelty entertainments and sideshows.

The racing club is looking forward to another excellent day of racing on Monday to complement the remarkably successful first day two weeks ago. A fashion parade competition, requiring no entry, will provide an additional highlight during the afternoon when a panel will choose the best-dressed women from among the patrons.