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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 672, 22 December 1882, Page 1

Akaroa Uxliibition AKAROA HORTICUTURAL, INDUSTRIAL, A \"D PASTORAL EXHIBITION, TO BE HKLD IN THE ODDFELLOWS' HALL. AEAROA, On JANUARY Ist and 2nd, 1883. rriHE Committee desire to call the 1 attention of the public to the fact that the forthcoming Exhibition will be carried out in a much more comprehensive manner than its predecessors. In the HORTICULTURAL division the awards have been divided into two classes, an open and amateur class, so that the non-professional residents will not have to compete against gardeners or the Chinese. The prizes offered in this division will be (in-lading private awards) over £25. The INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION is also exciting greater interest this year. The Schoolmasters' Association have offered five special prizes, and strong efforts are being made in the schools to cany off the palm. The objecls of art will also be seen to a much greater advantage in the Oddfellows' Hall. The AGRICULTURAL and PASTORAL division is under the auspices of the Farmers' Club, who offer a handsome and varied list of prizes for produce, implements, etc. The attention of farmers is specially called to the endeavors co encourage the manufacture of implements suitable for working our hilly country. The Society has issued two classes of tickets for purchase, to which they wish specially to call the attention of the public. The first costs 10s, and gives the holder a right to free entrance to the Exhibition during the two days, and also to the exemption from entry fees, except for special prizes. A further privilege will be free admittance to a PROMENADE CONCERT with which the Exhibition will close, on tho evening of January 2nd.. The other tickets arc 5s each, and are intended for those who de.-ire to en ourage the Socirty by a small donation, The following Special Prizes have been offered, and more are invited :•— £3 3s for the best treatise on stock for dairy purposes, and how to produce them, taking rearing, feeding, breeding, and causes (if any) through climatic influences, etc., between New Zealand and Great Britain, the treatise to be the property of the Farmers' Club; offered by Mr Henry Piper. 15s for the winner of the greatest number of prizes in the Agricultural and Pastoral exhibits; given by Mr W. Barnett. 9s for best cheese exhibited in the show; given by Mr W. Barnett. 10s 6d for the best curd shovel; offered by Mr George Checkley. 10s 6d for the best 12 mulberry leaves (Moms alba); offered by Mr. H C. Jacobson. 10s for the best collection of peas, named varieties; given by Mr Hawthorne. 7s 6d for the best box of flowers for window-sill; given by Mr E. Lee. 10s for the winner of the gi eateat number of prizes in the vegetable classes ; given by Mr JR. Newton. For the best kept exercise books in Standards 2, 3, 4, 5. and 6, to children attending the Government schools of the Peninsula. The work to extend over a period of not less thnn three months, and to be certified to by teacher. The conditions and the amounts of the prizes to be settled at the next monthly meeting or the Association Given by the Banks Peninsula Teachers Association. The schedules, with a full list of th< prizes offered, can be obtained of anj member of Committee, of the Hon Secretary, at the Mail Office, or at an] store in Akaroa. Entrance fees for al exhibits, except in the Industrial classes which are free, 6d per exhibit. Time of closing for entries and other intelli gence in future advertisements. STEPHEN WATKINS, Hon. Sec.

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