THE GREAT SHOW.

Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18342, 30 May 1931, Page 11

THE GREAT SHOW.

DENSE COUNTRY CROWDS.

SUNDAY-SCHOOL SECTION. THE POINTS. Prize winners in the Sunday School lection were in no w r ay confined to local Sunday Schools. Wanganui, Stratford, llowide, Waihou, Auckland and King Country schools were” all represented in the prize list. Points gained by Sunday Schools for the Sunday School Section Committee’s Points Shield were St. James’s Methodist (Frankton), 44; Walter’s Road Church of Christ (Auckland), 42; Church of Christ (Hamilton), 21; St. Paul’s Methodist (Hamilton), 14; Tapuiwahine Undenominational (King Country), 10; Anglican (Hamilton)B; Presbyterian (Howick), 5; Trinity Methodist (Wanganui), 4; Waihou, 4; Baptist (Hamilton), 3; St. Mary’s (Stratford), 2. The shield will be presented at the forthcoming Waikato Combined Sunday Schools’ rally. A comprehensive < display of Sunday School requisites exhibited by the Auckland Sunday School Union is included in the Sunday School section.

SHOW CHAT. ' t ;■; 'Friday was the heaviest day the •Waikato Winter Show lias experienced since it opened its doors last Tuesday. Early in the day crowds commenced to gather at the gates and the ticket office attendants were kept exceedingly busy during the day. At one stage during the afternoon the crowd was so dense that it was difficult to move around in comfort. .. * * * * . A great improvement has been effected in the ventilation of the buildings, which at one time were so stuffy that it was not uncommon for people to faint. 'Now a draught of clean air blows through the whole of the buildings and no matter how great the crowds visitors experience no idiscomfort from stuffiness.

'During the afternoon the four winning school choirs sang their test., pieces from the orchestral stand in the main hall. They were heard by a large crowd and were heartily applauded. Mademoiselle Mlchell, the young trapezist, gave a daring display in mid-air at the afternoon and evening sessions, and .will continue to do so ,<until the close of the Show next Wednesday night.

* * The covetousness- of youth is well exemplified at the Show, .where school hoys wander about in droves collecting everything that is given away in the nature of free samples. It Is only when, their faces begin to grow familiar from repeated'/appearance over the tops of lithe "Stalls*. that, the attendants in charge address them' none too gently. given away at certain stands '’Have ' bC'en ' the special prey of; the juveniles,whose demands have only eased off when Informed } that the stocks have run out.

' One feature of the Show that is attracting a good deal of oomment and interest is the display given every afternoon and evening by Mademoiselle ' Michell. From a trapeze suspended from the-roof of the main hall this intrepid girl performs some haff-raising feats. Twice daily, morning and Evening, she takes her life in her hands in this way, her performance always being done before an admiring and awo-struck crowd. V'.-r'i !f! # # *

There are apparently many dancers among the thousands of Show visitors who bewail the fact that despite competent jazz orchestras there Is no dancing floor. It was suggested to a Waikato Times reporter to-day that another platform should be" erected near the orchestral stand, where dancers could .congregate afternoon and' evenings. The innovation, it was stated, would be an added inducement for hundreds of young people to revisit the Show. • - ,

The graphic photographs of the merry times spent by children at the annual Port Waikato Camp have been a source of keen interest to many Show visitors from outside centres. ‘ One gentleman oloseiy Identified with philanthropic movements expressed wonderment at the scope of* the Camp League’s operations. "This sQrt of . thing should be organised throughout the country,” be said. The photographs are on view next to the Waikato Times stall. .

What a veritable paradise the Show Is to all children! To juvenile eyes everything is several times larger than it appears to the adult and usually the time spent there, especially In. the amusement area, Is all too short. Mechanical models seem to be the greatest attraction, the youngsters never tiring of the animated spectacle of moving pistons and rods. # # * *

In the event of emergency two nurses and an officer of the Hamilton division of the St. John Ambulance Brigade are on duty at the Show dally. Despite .the huge orowds which have besieged the buildings over the last few days and the many exhibitors handling mechanical appliances no serious accidents have occurred. Tne first aid service, however, has been useful for minor accidents in the form of cut lingers and abrasions. *•* * *

‘‘Well, we consider we in the south can grow roots, but since visiting your Show and seeing the wonderful specimens on view nero, I am beginning to realise that we are not the only pebbles on the root-growing beach," commented a well-known South Island agriculturist, Mr 13. S. Robinson to a pressman to-day. Mr Robinson makes it his business in the winter months, when things arc slack on the farm, to visit as many shows as possible, in order to get new ideas and to keep in touch with what farmers and industrialists are doing in other parts of the Dominion. Mr Robinson said this is the first time he has managed to see a Waikato Winter Show, but lie intends to come again, if possible, next year. Re states that lie has learned a considerable amount while up here, not merely from the Show, but from his contact with northern farmers, lie is greatly impressed with the value of top-dressing, which is carried out more in Waikato than in any other part of. the Dominion. lie considers the state of the pastures justifies tho faith which Waikato farmers put in this method of grass improvement.

ONLY THREE MORE DAYS : ATTRACTIONS FOR ALL.

Special trains arrived from several districts to-day, and the attendance is expected to constitute a record. On Monday the Reo Orohestra will be replaced by Scott's Orohestra. At 7i30 the Gay Revue Ballet will entertain the public, while the Harmonic Four will sing several numbers, and Messrs W. Fenton and R. Blackie will give some of •their inimitable humoresques. The Programme. Saturday, „7.30 p.m.—Miss Sophie Vivian: Character song; Miss Isabelle Brook and pupils. The Harmonica Boys.