WINTER SHOW

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 168, 15 June 1927, Page 9

WINTER SHOW

BIG ATTENDANCE TO-DAY. INTER-COLLEGIATE RUGBY. YESTERDAY’S TAKINGS SHOW ADVANCE. Fine, although dull weather prevailed for the continuation of the Winter Show to-day, and a very large attendance resulted this afternoon, the principal source of attraction being the Rugby match between the first fifteens of the Palmerston North Boys’ High School and Te Aute College. In the halls there was very considerable activity, the various buildings being thronged, from about noon onward. Machinery hummed everywhere, and there was an incessant clatter and bustle. The produce hall proved a source of considerable attraction, the fine exhibits of dairy produce, vegetables, photography, home industries, fruit and needlework being very much admired.

Yesterday’s attendance was , well ahead of the figures for the opening day of last year. At the gates the sum of £73 3s was taken, tas compared with £45 10s 6d for the corresponding day a year ago. Prior to the Rugby match this afternoon the Manawatu B Association, football representatives met Flock House, and a good game eventuated, being watched by a considerable number of spectators. The lighting of the town for show week has attracted much comment from visitors to Palmerston North. Last year Cuba Street, from the showgrounds to Ilangitikei Street, was illuminated with festoons of coloured lights, and this year there has been an extension to the Square and Rangitikei Street itself, the effect at night being really splendid. The Band Rotunda, in the Square, with its blaze of brilliant and multi-coloured lights, presented a bright spectacle last evening.

Showmen were to-day conducting their operations at full swing, and the amusement area presented an animated but orderly appearance, hundreds of people seeking a typo of entertainment that but twice a year comes their way. PROGRAMME FOR TO-MORROW. Included among the attractions for to-morrow are the Rugby matches scheduled to take place between the Oroua and Te Kawau Sub-Unions and between Wellington Training College and Maori Agricultural Coliege. In the evening the A. and P. Association will hold its annual 6moke concert, at V'hich the principal guests of the evening will be the Prime Minister and Hons. A. D. McLeod (Minister of Lands) and 0. J. Hawken (Minister of Agriculture). The complete programme is as follows :

9 a.m.—Show opens. 9.30 a.m. —N.Z. Romney Marsh Breeders’ Council; N.Z. Dairy Factory Managers’ Association grading competition. 10.30 a.m. —N.Z. (N. 1.) Conference of A. and P. Associations; Clydesdale Society annual meeting 11 a.m. —Demonstration Milking Shorthorns; Manawatu Herd Testing Association annual meeting; milk testing competition in Entertainment Hall. 12 noon. —N.Z. Wyandotte Club annual meeting; fat stock sale, sheep pavilion. 12.30 p.m. (or about). —Oroua v Te Kawau Sub-Union Rugby match, followed by Wellington Training College v, Maori Agricultural College. 2 p.m. —Lecture and poultry demonstration'by Mr F. C. Brown, Department of Agriculture; N.Z. Romney Marsh Sheep Breeders’ annual meeting; N.Z. Orpington Club annual meeting; N.Z. Milking Shorthorn council. 3 p.m. —N.Z. Game and Bantam Club annual meeting. 7.30 p.m —Scotch and Irish dancing in Entertainment Hall. 8 p.m. —N.Z. Milking Shorthorn Assooiation annual meeting; A. and P. Association smoke concert in Lecture Hall. 10 p.m.—Show r closes.

THE PRIZE LIST.

FAT STOCK SECTION. SHEEP AND LAMBS. (Judge: Mr F- H. Steele, Christchurch) Three fat wethers, under 24 months, long-woolled: Sir J. G. Wilson (Bulls) 1 .and 2, B. C. Eglinton (Palmerston North) 2, A. D. Buchanan (Tiakitaluma) v h c, W. A. Thomson (Kairanga) h c; 11 entries. Three fat ewes, under 24 months, long woolled: Farley Bros. (Wanganui) 1, W. A. Thomson 2 and h c, R. Thomson (Rangiotu) 3 and vh c; 10 entries. Three fat wethers, under 24 months, Down crosses: Sir J. G. Wilson 1 and 2, W. G. Shannon (Palmerston North) 3, W. A. Thomson v h c, Farley Bros, h e; seven entries. Three fat ewes, under 24 months, Down crosses: Sir J. G. Wilson 1 and 3, Farley Bros. 2-; five entries. Three fat wethers in wool, under 24 months, most profitable sheep, wool and carcase combined: Sir J. G. Wilson 1 and 3, Farley Bros 2, W. A. Thomson vh c; six entries. Three fat wethers, any breed, under 40 months: Farley Bros. 1 and v h c, W. A. Thomson 2, W. G. Shannon 3 and h c, J. F. McKelvie c; 15 entries. Three fat ewes, any breed, under 40 months: J. F. McKelvie 1 and 2, W. A. Thomson 3, I). Buiek (Kairanga) v h c; six entries. Three fat lambs, wethers or ewes, any breed, without restriction as to weight: Sir J. G. Wilson 1 and 2, Farley Bros. 3, W. A. Thomson v h c, W. G. Shannon h c; 10 entries. Three fat ewes, wethers or ewes, longwoolled, bred from any flock: L. B. Wall (Kairanga) 1, W. A. Thomson 2, 3 and v h c, F. D. Collis (Kairanga) h o; 12 entries. Three fat lambs, wethers or ewes, Down cross, bred from any one flock: W. A. Thomson 1, Sir .T. G. Wilson 2, Farley Bros 3, L. B. Wall v h c; 14 entries. Three fat ewes, any age. any weight,’ breed or cross: Farley Bros. 1. W. A. Thomson 2 and 3, D. Buick v lie, W. G. Shannon h c; 15 entries. CATTLE. (Judge: Mr F. H. Steele, Christchurch). Heifer, lmder 4 years, any breed or cross: J. Webb (Taihape) 1. 2 and 3; only entries Bullock, under 3 years, any breed or cross: C. T. Iveeble (Palmerston North) 1 and 2: 4 entries. Bullock, under 2 years, any breed or cross: J. Webb 1; only entrv. Fat cow, any age: .T. Webb 1,2 and 3; only entries. Pair batcher’s cattle, not over 4 years, any breed or cross: C. T. Keeble 1, J. Webb 2: 4 entries.