RECORD ENTRIES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19884, 10 March 1939, Page 13

RECORD ENTRIES

WAIROA’S 1939 SHOW

WONDERFUI i PROGR ESS

ESTIMATED PROFIT OF £lO7

(Special to the Herald.) WAIROA, this day

An indication of the rapid growth oi the Wairoa Agricultural and Pastoral Society’s annual Show was clearly shown when a summary of entries for the various Shows from 1929 to 1939 was presented at a committee meeting of the society *his week. Entries for the 1929 Show totalled 1404, compared with 2980 entries for ■the annual Show this year, which was the largest -number of entries received for a Show since the society's inception. Entry fees collected for the 1929 Show totalled £240 19s (id, as- against £2BO 3s 9d this year. The largest number of entry fees collected for any Show -was an 1934, when the figure reached' £324 Tss lOd. A total of £491 6s was collected this year in membership fees, which constituted a record for -the society, while the society’s membership of 497 this year was also a record. The previous year’s membership totalled 45.3 and the amount collected in fees £450 3s.

In 1929 tble amount paid out in prize-money totalled £355 18s Gd, as against the record -this year of £521 15s 7d.

The approximate statement of accounts for this year show that the profit on the Show was £166 19s sd, compared with £197 18s 10c! last year. The expenditure this year was £llO4 7s 4d, as against £IOBO 7s 4d in 1938. Prize-money paid out this year showed an increase of £45 8s Gd over last year’s figure of £476 7s Id. Although the entries received for this year’s Show were the largest on record, the entry fees totalled only £286 3s 9d. compared with £294 17s last year, the drop this year being accounted for by a decrease in entries in the horse and sheep sections and competitions.

The president of the society, Mr. A. T. Carroll, congratulated the members and stewards on the success of the 1939 Show and added that they were fortunate in having ideal weather and everything in their favour. Mr. Carroll stated that one of the features of the permanent improvements this year was the fact that up to a point it was far more economical to complete a portion that was urgently required than to do all the improvements at once. When the committee was considering further improvements to the showgrounds it would be wise for them to take that into consideration.