MANAWATU SHOW.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 331, 19 October 1908, Page 5

MANAWATU SHOW.

. " ' THE ENTRIES. Though general entries in connection with the Manawatu A. and. P. Spring Show closed or Friday night, (says,our correspondent) late entries will be. accepted ' till next Friday night. Sufficient details are now available en fries in all departments) and that the show will be equally successful as its many predecessors. ' Figures available, which are only approximate, are as follow Ring competitions, 270, the principal items of attraction being maiden jumping, leaping competition, and the big : hunters' event, the three accounting for 85 entries. The ladies' ring events have attracted 35 entries. The contestants in these-. events are representative' of. the whole island. Horse classes, 270; cattle, 230; sheep, 560; pigs; 70; dogs, 300. In the arts and industrial classes the display will occupy a wall space of fully 4000 square feet. The show of implements promises to be one of the features of the , show, the entries at present Received' accounting for. a space of 40,000 square feet—easily the biggest display seen in this island. The. committee of the, Manawatu. Savage Club; have .decided to close the' season with a special ladies' night during show-week, to which military, naval, and other visitors to the! show aind tournament will bo invited.