DANNEVIRKE JUBILEE SHOW.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12569, 9 February 1934, Page 4

DANNEVIRKE JUBILEE SHOW.

RECORD ENTRIES IN MOST SECTIONS. Entries received lor the Jubilee Show on Tuesday and Wednesday next ot the Dannevirke A. and P. Association should prove a record, provided the post entry sections—cookery and ring events—are up to the usual standard, ns inquiries indicate that they will be. 1 lie 54 horse stalls will be insufficient to accommodate the horses, as there will be 76 horses and ponies competing. Entries in this section are not quite as large as last year, but are larger than the two* preXi? u ? years The ring events have tilied particularly well. Entries in , e draughts are the largest since the 1914 show. In cattle the entries are ex* client, fnoo K a ‘ u ; ;ul , of those in 1932 and 1933, while the class on this occasion promises to be outstanding. Many teams competing at the Roval ■Show m Auckland this week will be in attendance at Dannevirke Jerseys will again be a feature, (jl pens having hex 1 ti entered Friesian cattle will make an excellent display, 52 pens being enteri’ a i*ecord for the Dannevirk. ®*?S vr ; Thirty-three pens of Ayrshire* , be exhibited, While the dairy < attic are this year more inune-v;s than usual. Altogether 244 ot the tattle pens will be in use. coin parnY -^ 1 1 h 3 last year, an increase of S pfrt P entries l i ,r< : n head of those ol last >ear. all breeds being re-tik-io" tec1 ’ Sl ?" t hdowns and Homnevs p-' V, ” prominence. Fat sheep and new 1 I ', aVP j' "°° d «*»trv. Alanv •n, ’-heep breeders are exhibiting, i lie pig section is increasing each Vrtll A anC ‘ 0,1 t i l,s occasion 114 pons I,e required to accommodate -he ~R 63 last year, an in- < lease ot 01, easily a record for this section. Butter and cheese entries are a record 93 having been received as against 68 last year. Hie Dannevirke Kennel Club will Have to accommodate over 1.30 dogs j l ', . ,'t will he an outstanding \- taiDitioa, probably the best_ever held m New Zealand, .is dogs from all parts of the North and South Island will he competing, many coming from the kennel section of the Roval Show in Auckland. Tn home industries the needlework entries are excellent Exhibits are coming from as far north as Auckland and as far south as Dunedin. Cookery entries will close on the morning of the first day .if the show at lO a.m. The school'division " a f., also l,ra '' rll a record entrv u- the additional ieatnres' of Highland dancing, sheaf tossing, athletic events (in the evening) ,nd many others, the jubilee show ‘ on this occasion should make a il appeal to those interested in shows, and who reside in districts out- -!•* .Southern Hawke’s Bay.