EXTRA EDITION. MAGNIFICENT DISPLAY

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 146, 22 June 1915, Page 8

EXTRA EDITION. MAGNIFICENT DISPLAY

MANAWATU SHOW OPENED BY PRIME MINISTER. (BT TEIEGRIPH.— SPECIAL 10 THE FOST.) PALMERSTON N., This Day. The weather was not very . favourable for the opening of the twelfth National Dairy Show at Palmerston to-day. There was a cold easterly, with rain showers, in the early morning, but the rain has now stopped and the prospects are brighter. There is a magnificent display in all sections of the Show. So prolific has been tne response generally that space is all too small. The dairy machinery is one of the finest displays ever seen here, and features the fact of how greatly laboursaving devices are coming into vogue in all departments of dairying. The root crops displays are another feature. Hawkes Bay, in spite of tho drought, has sent remarkable samples. To-day the home industries and honey classes and farm produce are being judged, and a feature for the public will be the school displays on the Oval, in which about a thousand will take part in physical drill, a massed display, and sports. Two Departmental school physical instructors and Mr. F. K. De Castro, of the Education Department, are present, as the display is largely important as a demonstration of what ia being done in this' direction in the schools. The Show was opened by the Right Hon. W. F. Massey, Prime Minister, at mid-day. Generally, it is an unqualified success, and truly national, as the entries come from all parts of the Dominion. MR. MASSEY' S SPEECH. Mr. Massey, speaking at the opening of the Show, said that we had enough frozen produce awaiting shipment to fill twenty ships, but he hoped that the seventeen ships now on the way here would make a hole in it. Nine new ships were building for the New Zealand and Australian trade, but he did believe it would be impossible to get them for the coming season because of the Imperial calls on the shipping yards. Mr. Massey stated that. New Zealand was shorter of oats at present than for the last 25 years, but the wheat prospects were extremely good. He congratulated the district on the magnificent display at the Show and upon the prosperous year.