WAIKATO WINTER SHOW

Waikato Times, Volume 95, Issue 14949, 20 May 1922, Page 6

WAIKATO WINTER SHOW

1 TO BE OPENED ON MAY 30.

RECORD ENTRIES RECEIVED. MINISTER OP AGRICULTURE TO ' ATTEND. The Waikato Winter Show Association’s annual exhibition will be opened at the Association’s buildings, Ward Stret, on Tuesday, May 30, and will continue day and evening during that week. The opening ceremony will be performed at 2.30 on the afternoon of t Tuesday by the Hon. W. Nosworthy, . Minister of Agriculture, in the absence 1 of the Prime Minister, Hon. W. F. Massey, who finds it impossible to attend through important business demands requiring his attention elsewhere.

The Show on the coming occasion will easily excel" in importance the great exhibitions which have been staged in the capacious Ward Street buildings in the past. Despite the fact that provision has been made by large additions to the original buildings, giving many thousands of square feet of extra space, the demands for accommodation have been so great that it has been found impossible to find room for all the trade exhibits which wish to be provided for on the coming occasion. As a result no fewer than 50 applicants for space have reluctantly had to be advised that the “full-up” mark had been reached. The great halls throughout the Association’s building will contain a display the standard of which has never previously been attained. The numerous side-shows on this occasion will be accommodated on the open space facing Anglesea Street and part of the old saleyards site. Here' adequate lighting accommodation Is" being fitted up, and the public will have ready access from the main building to the*numerous attractions which will be quartered at the point indicated. Carpenters are now busy plying .hammer and .saw , and the final preparations essential to fitting' the J huge annexe out in accordance with displaying needs will go on uninterruptedly from this out to opening hour. 't: \ The entries for the Show this year are easily a record, being in all 1500 ahead of the .figures for the Show of

1921.. "In practically every one of the 'numerous sections which the exhibition caters for there is an advance for the

coming occasion, the dairy and horticultural sections showing the most marked improvement. The duty of Staging this immense assemblage of competitive products is an important one, and will require a large staff, Which will begin almost immediately on the work.

. : The Association will still retain its • popular admission charge of Is to all parts of the Show, and the attendance for the coming occasion promises to exceed the big figures of past years. A wide, open space is being provided below the dais in the main annexe of the .Show. The entertainment of the ’public is imeeiving special'alien lion, the famous Hawaiian Band having been

engaged. Dancing is to be a specialty i of the public entertainment. At the request of several commercial associa- \ tions of Auckland, the Show authorities have entered into arrangements for a special train to leave Auckland on the!. Thursday morning of Show week and to leave Hamilton on the return ' journey about 5 o’clock, reaching Auckland; about 8 p.rn. '