SYDNEY SHOW

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16923, 11 April 1929, Page 12

SYDNEY SHOW

ALL RECORDS ECLIPSED EXHIBITS WILL GO TO ENGLAND SYDNEY, April 4. The annual Royal Show of the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales, is drawing to a close, and it is safe to say that this year’s big event has eclipsed those of all other years, The R.A.S. Show has now become a Commonwealth-wide function, rivailing in importance the Melbourne Cup meeting in Victoria. Farmers, graziers, pa.stora lists and stockbreeders from all over the Commonwealth. as well as from New Zealand, Tasmania, and South Africa, were among the visitors to this year’s show, and the quality of the cattle and other stock exhibited surpassed that of any other year. In numbers, too, the Royal Show is growing into an enormous event. The persons who have visited the showground during' the ten days and five nights which it has been running, aggregate well over a million end a half. Cash takings are in the vicinity of £750,000, exclusive df the great- number of members of the R.A.S. who have tlie privilege of inviting numbers of their friends. SPECTACULAR EVENTS. The greatest attraction at the show mu a spectacular poinl of view,is the : lug. Hunting, high jumping, and uniting races arc hell, and this year l wo Royal Show records were broken in the high jump section. Miss Emily Roach, a lady rider, piloted Dungog oyer the bars at 7ft tin in llr ladies’ high jump, while the same horse, ridden by its owner: Mr. J). Ohittick, cleared 7ft Gin. in one of tlie high jumping events held at night time. Both are records, and the owner received two special grants of £SOO for the horse’s performances. Another spectacular event is the woodchopping contests, which drew thousands. Contests in all classes of woodchopping and sawing are held, and this year Mannie McCarthy and bis brother, .Tack McCarthy, proved themselves the best all-rounders, winning both the teams’ woodchop championship, and the sawing championship. Leo Appo, a tall, muscular New Zealander, also performed well, and from the scratch mark carried off several important events. The R.A.S. Show has become the prosperity barometer of tlie State, and judging by the excellence of the exhibits New South" Wales has a bumper season ahead. It- has been proposed that the whole of the exhibits at the show this year should he sent Home to England .to form an Australian exhibit at the big Empire Fair shortly to be held. This proposal has met with the approval of the State Government, and it is probable that as soon as the show closes these exhibits will he shipped in their entirety to Great Britain. Many prominent British visitors to the show expressed themselves as being astounded at the exhibition of prosperity which the show symbolised. They, too, heartilv endorsed the proposal to send tlie exhibits to England. They stated that such an exhibition would be a thousand dimes better Ilian a hundred photographs of farm scenes or tourist beauty spots.