Next Winter Show

Northern Advocate, 13 August 1935, Page 6

Next Winter Show

PLANS ALREADY UNDER WAY COMPETITIVE SECTIONS ANNOUNCED. COMMITTEE MEETING MONTHLY. Plans for the 1936 Whangarei Winter Show are already being made. The show committee is not letting any grass grow under its feet. Meetings are to be held monthly and at the first of the series held last night, a start was made with the new arx’angements. Mr H. W. James presided. A decision was made to • hold the show during the first week in July. A list of competitive sections was drawn up, and it .was decided that one man should be placed in charge of one section. he having the power to co-opt any assistance he may desire to organise the section. The following competitive sections, and those in charge, were announced: Poultry (Mr S. Boscawen); pigeons (Mr E. Gilbey); canaries and cage birds (—); farm and garden produce (Mr J. D. Horn); cats (—); fruit, (Mr C. V. Stringer); honey and bee section (Mr W. Tunstall); art, commercial art. and photography (Mr P. H. Basley); Maori arts and crafts (Mr M. R. Findlay); models (Mr M. Snow); Women's Institute courts (Mrs A. O. Brown); Women’s Institute sections (Mrs A. O. Brown); needlework, including wool ( —); preserves and baking C —); home dairy produce, including home cured hams and bacon (Mr H. T. Snell); master bakers’ (Mr A. Taylor); dogs (Mr Griffiths); tobacco (Mr Tunstall); factory butter and cheese (Mr S. J. Woods); postage stamps (Mr R. Drummond); fleece wool (Mr H. C. Fraser); educational (Mr H. McMillan); secondary educational (Mr A. R. Ryder). The flowers and pot plants ancj soldiers’ handcrafts sections were held over until the next meeting.

Mrs E. Gilbey, Mrs A. O. Brown, Messrs H. T. Snell, H. Drummond, H. C. Fraser, A. R. Ryder, S. J. Woods, J. Skow, and K. Hayr are to be invited to join the committee. A grounds committee comprising the chairman, and Messrs J. P. Woods and F. J. Howie was appointed. The chairman, Messrs A. K. Franks. J. Skow, M. R. Findlay, K. Hayr and F. J. Howie were appointed an entertainment committee, and were asked to bring down a report on a full week’s entertainment.

It is proposed as each section is arranged, to produce the schedule as a separate, leaflet and circulate it. The object of this is to enable intending competitors to know as early as possible what is required of them.