PARAPARAUMU SHOW
Twelve years ago last September the Paraparaumu and District Horticultural and Industrial Society held its first show with 290 entries in the various classes. For five years it suspended all activity, owing to the war, but early in 1920 it set to work again. The record of entries at its successive shows reveals a steady increase up to last autumn, when the entries numbered 571. What is equally important, for it is the purpose of the society to develop taste and method as well us interest, exhibitors have shown immense improvement in the quality and arrangement of tlieir exhibits. Preparation for next Wednesday's autumn show are well forward, and the committee has reason to expect that this display will be in no sense inferior to earlier ones." Specially strong support is being , N given this year by donors of special .prizes in the various classes. There are classes lor bouquets and decova'.ions. cookery and needlework, and lor school children's work. The coiiunilU'l' has tried to make a specially struiix1 fealia-p of this last section, in which at the last slimy nuui> than iOU entries were rujciVod. Tlni help uf very cuuipetcut. judges lias been secured for the show.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 61, 15 March 1924, Page 9
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200PARAPARAUMU SHOW Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 61, 15 March 1924, Page 9
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