AUCKLAND SHOW

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1131, 20 June 1927, Page 7

AUCKLAND SHOW

THE NEW SECRETARY

(Per Press Association) Auckland, June 18. The last stage of the recent controversy in the Auckland Metropolitan A. and P. Association over the appointment of a new managing secretary was reached yesterday. Mr W. P. O’Donnclj, late of tlie AVai])ukurau High School teaching staff, takes up his duties on July 1, and it was decided to retain Mr A. 1). 'Stanley’s services until after the Whiter Show. The suggestion that the Hoval Show in future he held in the autumn instead of in the spring was supported at yesterday’s general executive meeting of the Auckland A. and P. Association. 'The president? Mr AS’. AY. Massey, remarked that in the autumn most of the provincial stock exhibitions wero over and had given the lead as to wTficli animals were fit lor entry in the premier fixture. A member observed that the autumn really starts in March, and not in February, and if the Royal Show i\as held in the former month it should suit everyone, including the sheep breeders.