THE WINTER SHOW

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23029, 5 May 1938, Page 14

THE WINTER SHOW

Interest in the Winter Exhibition and Carnival —or the Winter Show, to give it the title by which popular speech is likely still to distinguish—is quickened this year by occupancy of a new location. The obvious disadvantages imposed by the nature of the Central Wharf buildings, erected for a purpose vastly different, have been valiantly overcome, more or less, by the promoters in recent years; but transference to the Show Grounds at Epsom should prove a gain in every way. With a floor-space 50 per cent larger, extensive alterations to the existing buildings and ample facilities for the provision of outdoor entertainment and comfortable accommodation of visitors, the changed venue promises to be additionally attractive in itself. To judge by the displays made this year, there is an associated encouragement of an increasingly impressive standard in this essential feature. It ought not to be expected that each assembly of exhibits should set a standard for the one following; there ought to be continuous improvement. Attendances, too, should be expected to grow, in company with the adoption of a progressive policy; the record gratifyingly achieved last year will doubtless be broken on this occasion. Success in all respects is fully merited by the co-operation of the two authorities, farming and manufacturing, responsible for this annual enterprise. Mr. Sullivan's words of congratulation on this combining of rural and urban interests apply both to what has been done and to what is projected. For this exhibition each authority has done its part well. It is now the privilege of the general public to make the Winter Show of 1938 a happy rendezvous during the period so auspiciously begun. An educative and entertaining experience is assured., I