THE WINTER SHOW.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 147, 22 June 1904, Page 6

THE WINTER SHOW.

PEOPLES DAY, [Bt TRLKon.vpn.3 jFrom Our Special Reporter.) PALMERSTON N., This Day. The weather is bright and warm for People's Day at the show. Crowd.'* aie 'arriving from all paits of the dhdrict, and the exhibition buildings were thronged during the morning. It is the weekly half-holiday in Palmer&ton this afternoon. A special attraction at tho show will be v seven-a-aido football, tournament, for which eight teams have entered, and a flve-a-aide, hockey tournament, for which te*n tojtmjj huvc entered. Tho games will be played on the show ground oval. Messrs. B. M'Ewan and Co., Wellington won tho firKl prize (£ls) in a competition for tho best collection of modern dairy factory uppliunces, Mesitrs. Beattie, Lang, and Co. being second. Poultry judging whs finished this morning. Wyundoltes was the be.'t represented class, additional interest being lent, to the competition by a number of trophies allotted. Mr. J. IT. Priestly, Auckland, was the principal winner, and won Ihe North Island championship with a Golden Wyandotle cockerel, which the judge said was the beat-conditioned bird in the show. Other winners wero-R. Bishop (Levin) and T, H. Stewart (Hastings). In the Silvor classes, G. H. Hutchinson (Auckland) and J. 0. Suckling (Pahiatua) obUiiwd firHt*. F. Bradley (Wellington) and G. Hight (Itongotea) wore most successful exhibitors in White Wyandollcs, B. U. Gower (Mastcrtou) and J J. Jams (fiongotca) in Partridge Wyandottes, and J. Jarvis any other variety.