Record attendance at Marlborough Show

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33066, 6 November 1972, Page 12

Record attendance at Marlborough Show

More than 10,000 people visited the Marlborough Agricultural and Pastoral Association’s Centennial Show at Blenheim on Saturday, providing the association with record attendance and record gate-takings of $2244, making $2539 for the two-day event.

The previous best day’s figure was $1794 in 1970. The feature of the show was the big line-up of stock and machinery for the grand parade and the support given by exhibitors with entries, which also reached a record level. Formally opening the show, Mr Donald McDonald (Dannevirke), president of the Royal Agricultural Society of New Zealand, said that the interest being shown in A. and P. affairs throughout New Zealand today must be considered a good omen for the future of farming. Among the visiting competitors was Mrs E. W. White (Hawke’s Bay), en route to the Canterbury Royal Show with her horse, Rigoletto. Besides giving a masterly exhibition of dressage riding as a special ring event, the combination was judged champion show hack. The reserve was Sincerity, ridden by Karen Coleman (Motueka). Mrs White’s second horse, Tattersail, was judged champion hunter, with Flint, ridden by Wendy Wadworth, as reserve. Other championship awards in the horse and pony sections were:— Jumping hack: Wendy Wadworth’s Flint; reserve, Celia Fairclough’s Dusty Jade. Pony jumper: Heather Barrett (Christchurch) Luckadin; reserve, Nickl Saunders’s Gold Mist. Supreme pony champion: Claire Mahony

(Christchurch) Debonaire. Group A: Denise Lovett (Kaikoura) Glisten; reserve, Susan Smith’s Second Thoughts. Group B: Claire Mahony’s Debonaire; reserve, Brent Beatson’s Springtime. Additional championships awarded on Saturday:— Merino.—Grand champion ram: R. S. A. Chaffey (Seddon); reserve, F. N. W. Richmond (Richmond Brook). Grand champion and reserve champion ewe: C. H. Rudd and Son (Summerlands). Fine combing: Ram, R. P. Steele (Waiau); ewe, J. R. Jackson (Blenheim). Medium combing: Ram: R. S. A. Chaffey, reserve, F. M. W. Richmond; ewe, C. H. Rudd and Son. Strong combing: Ram, champion and reserve, F. M. W. Richmond. Dairy cattle.—All breeds championship, female: W. G. Parkes and Sons’s Friesian Windermere T. S. Pearl; reserve, D. M. and I. M. Jordan’s Jersey Willowhaugh Christina. Bull: R. C. Woolley and Son’s Friesian Waiview W. Monty; reserve, W. G. Parkes and Son’s Pukeroro Herbert Lock. Pigs.—Supreme champion sow and best pig in show : R. Bishell and Son’s Berkshire. Supreme champion boar: R. Bishell and Son’s Berkshire. Large White, sow: A. Bary; reserve, T. G. Pizzini. Help for Fiji The Red Cross Society of China has announced that it is giving 100,000 yuan (about $107,140) to help the victims of the recent hurricane in Fiji.—Hong Kong, November 5.