WANGANUI SHOW.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 338, 27 October 1908, Page 5

WANGANUI SHOW.

AN EVENT WITH ADVANTAGES./ • Exhibitors'of stock should .not forget that entries for the Wanganui Show close'- next Saturday. This show comes at a most suitable time for displaying the .best stockjip the. Island, because, with > the. Hastings, Carterton, apd Palmerston Shows oyer, breedert hav"o no' need to be'anxious about 'are condition of their sfock, as they usually are on the eve of one 'of the great shows. Never-theless,-a Wanganui championship counts, and the judging is usually accurate' Enough to i secure ■ the, confidence' of exhibitdff*. The Wanganui'Show has made good prdjjress under difficult conditions in the past, 'Mid a few years hence it will probably rank Uv'ith some of the best shows in the Island. Tlitf men at the back .of -it are ,ah . enthusiaS&B group, and with the. steady growth of as a town, its easy rail distance fronf' Wellington and all the important towns '&>uth of Auckland, its charming fame as tho home of the world's oarsman, 'and—not least—its fasting .feats,' one can justly anticipate'that the C£qjvd of the show-going public-.that will. makp,,ft pilgrimage to the"'western city- at shqyj. time this year will be considerable. Wo ( Eave ohly 'one town .in New Zealand like Wpiiiaiiui. Entries close'next. Saturday.' ■ j. ' .Here are the. dates of, the, g four, shows, showing .Wanganui's place of "advantage in the sequence. ... >, j 0! , , October, 21, .22.—Hastings. -.jj; . October,2B, 29.— - • November 4,; 5, 6—Palmerston North. November 11, .12.—Wangajuiii,. Wanganui's leading sections ... comprise horses,.'cattle," sheep, pigs,/(dogg,,- cats, poultry, ' wool, home and Ecnool exhibits. : Tho industries section attracts .enormous, patronageweach year, and as the . Wanganui Show isiione of ; the, few places in the , world where cats 'lire . adequately appreciated, the numerous feline fanciers .among- the .'ladies Loathe .Dominion ahould give it good support;- The: cat clasGes are open to the wholoi. world. Last. year there -were fourteen exhibitors' in this: in-, teresting section, of whohliekven were ladies. The wool classes fill a-big corncr in,the econ-, omy of - farming practice., nand cater admirably - for those sheepowiiers who desire,.to enter. into contests with HHeir flecces, wlie-, ther Lincoln,. Down,•-or. crossbred. On the whole; the Wangamii Show has many special on offer that the other shows,:do\ Inot provide.,