Motoring and leisure show

Press, 20 November 1987, Page 13

Motoring and leisure show

A motoring and leisure show featuring more than 300 cars, some of them in animated and environmental displays, will be mounted by the Christchurch West Rotary Club over three days during the first week-end in December. The Club has taken over the Addington trotting grounds for the show, which will be staged indoors as well as outdoors and will also encompass boats and motorcycles. Proceeds will go to-

wards the $lOO,OOO the club aims to raise as part of a SUSI2O million world-wide appeal by Rotary International to raise funds for a vaccination programme to protect the world’s children against poliomyelitis and other crippling diseases. It has been estimated that each dollar raised will vaccinate five children.

Although polio vaccine has virtually eliminated the disease in New Zealand, 750 children throughout the world con-

tract it each day and it has been estimated that 10 per cent of them die from it. Show visitors will see a cavalcade of motoring and will also be able to make back-to-back comparisons of new cars on display. But cars of all types and all ages will be shown in special displays. They will include vintage and racing cars and will be displayed in chronological order from the earliest to the latest examples.

Also, historically significant examples of cars, motor-cycles and boats will be on hand for showgoers to view at close quarters.