Spring festival to include big daffodil show
Spring in Christchurch this year will be celebrated with the biggest Spring Festival held in the South Island. •‘Springfestival 84” at the Pioneer Stadium from September 28 to 30 will include the South Island national daffodil show. A South Island floral art contest, with the theme “This is Canterbury,” was also planned, the secretary of the Canterbury Horticultural Society,’ Mr Tom Clarke, has said. An “early Canterbury” historical parade from the Addington Raceway to the stadium has been organised
by New Brighton Kiwanis. This would include Clydesdale horses, vintage cars, and historical machinery. Flora represented at the festival would include orchids, camelias, rhododendrons and carnivorous plants. There would be displays of china painting, pottery, Maori wood carving, weaving and bone carving, said Mr Clarke. The Canterbury festival will follow the third World Daffodil Convention at Hamilton from September 13 to 16. This will be one of New Zealand’s largest flower shows and it will be the first World Convention held in New Zealand.
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