WAIRARAPA SHOW

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 105, 30 October 1935, Page 13

WAIRARAPA SHOW

EXCELLENT ENTRIES

RAIN MARS OPENING

IFrom "The Post's" Special Reporter.) CARTERTON, This Day.

Last year the Wairarapa Show executive successfully contended with the havoc caused by the windstorm a few weeks previously. This year's show opened at Carterton today while hundreds of acres in the Wairarapa are still either flooded or suffering from the effects of continual heavy rain for three days. The quality and numbers of the exhibits are not affected, but with only a gradual slackening of the rainfall it is feared the attendances will slump. Those prepared to face the weather's discomforts were well rewarded by a display of the farming wealth of the district. Officials consider the exhibits are of sufficient quality to attract record crowds but for the rain. The total entries are a shade more numerous than last year and little below the record figure in 1933. Increases over last year are shown in the classes for horses, dogs, sheep, and children's work. Comparisons with last year's exhibits are as follows:--: Tight show, 77 (102); competition, 186 (223); horses, 197 (188); cattle, 358 (391); sheep, 366 (441); pigs, 92 (122); dogs, 366 (352); grain, cheese, and butter, 47 (97); cooking, 276 (298); sewing and fancywork, 142 (202); school children's classes, TB6 (628); livestock judging, 43 (nil). Total, 3046 (3044). Enthusiasts with mackintoshes, gumboots, and umbrellas watched the cattle parade and sheepdog trial this morning, when the judging of cattle, sheep, and pigs was in progress. There aro many trade exhibits of cars, motorcycles, trucks, tractors, radios, and refrigerators, and a full range of agricultural machinery and farm requisites. There are all the usual sideshows. The night show opens tonight, and more events will take place tomorrow, including a grand parade cf stock. It will not be the fault of the Wairarapa and East Coast P. and A. Society if the fifty-ninth annual shov/ is not a success.