RECORD TAKINGS AT THE DOORS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2675, 21 June 1905, Page 31

RECORD TAKINGS AT THE DOORS.

The winter show was closed on Saturday »ight. It maintained its popularity to the "last, the takings at the doors on Saturday being £14-8. The amount taken at the doors ior the four days was £841— a record. Last year's total was £743, and the previous year's £572. On Saturday morning the children of the Fifth Standard and upwards in the publicof Dunedin and suburbs were invited *o attend between 9.30 and 10.30, and it as reckoned that about 1500 availed themeelves of the opportunity. Sales of fat stock took place on Saturday, "when lambs brought up to 30s each, and a •horthorn bullock realised £15. Tha Garrison Band, the TPipe Band, and .Mr Robertshaw's orchestra played at inter"vals in the afternoon and evening. ' The JCqmmittee of Management has every reason to, congratulate itself on the success of the exhibition not only from the financial standpoint, but also from the point of ■view of general public, which had t)laced fcefore it a show that has certainly not previously been equalled in Dunedin, or, indeed, in the colony. The Dunedin winter show is the envy of other oentr.es, and it stands to the credit of the Otago pas--toralists, _ farmers, and dairymen that they are making a .grand success of it, and improving it yea,r by year. Next year increased accommodation will undoubtedly be Tequireci. Many farmers who visit&d the show were greatly taken -with the working model of a ±urnit>-thinner. invented and patented by Mr P. Barton, of Maori Hill, which was on exhibition in Messrs Nimmo and Blair's stand during the show. It is an ingenious machine, and all farmers who carefully examined it were satisfied it -would do the work required of it, and thus solve a difficult problem in dealing with turnip-thinning. The invention has been taken up by a powerful syndicate of those interested hi agricultural matters and farmers.