RECORDS BROKEN.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20280, 14 April 1934, Page 30 (Supplement)

RECORDS BROKEN.

Sydney Show is Still Growing. N.Z. JUDGE’S PRAISE. (Special to u>o “Star”) SYDNEY, April 6. Praise fn superlatives was the feature of a description of the Sydney Royal Show jriven by Mr. Norman Wade, who returned this mornin" hy the Marama. He was accompanied hv Air. D. D. Wilson, of Hamilton, and between them they judged all dogs at the show except some of the toy dogs and the sporting “The show was the brightest and best ret,” said Air. Wade. “They had records in every event, and the accommodation was taxed to the utmost. In fact., the show authorities are seriously considering the enlarging of their premises. In three days 540,400 people went through the turnstile. On ‘people’s day,’ April 3, HI,OOO people visited the show, of whom 21,000 wcue children. The people over there are most enthusiastic about the exhibition. The gate takings were £34,500 £OOOO more than last year. All exhibits, not merely in the dogs, and particularly fat cattle, were of a high standard. The dogs were dightly better than here.” “Alsatians are banned, and the Royal Show authorities are quite against thenappearance at the show. In the papers I saw headings, the effect of which was that this dog should either be muzzled or shot. People in Australia are afraid that the Alsatians will get into the back country, run wild and mate with the dingoes, and eventually take toll of the sheep.” Air. Wade was impressed, as were the judges and the general public, with the fine quality of the fat cattle, Herefords and Polled Angus. “Six or seven of the latter imported from England and put up for sale just before the show, realised an average of oOOg.s, while one Hereford bull went as high as 750g5,” he said. “They have money in Aus'.ralia for good cattle!” In the horse section, a number ol prizes for draughts went to New Zealanders. “But the high jump was the event that took the eye. One horse leapt as high as 7ft 9in. The record is only 7ft l(Min, and as the Royal Show authorities have offered a prize for any horse which can beat that, vou can understand that the contest ‘is keen. Over there a jump of 6ft fiin is quite common. I saw a pony of 14 hands do l .hat height.