A WINTER SHOW.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1144, 3 June 1911, Page 13

A WINTER SHOW.

WHY NOT IN WELLINGTON?

The Coronation Exhibition in being has implanted tho notion in more than one activo mind that Wellington, which forswore summer agricultural and pastoral shows somo fifteen years ago, would be an ideal centre for a big Domiuion winter show, run somewhat on the lines of the shows held every winter in Auckland and Pnlmerston North. Wellington may be favourably considered, because it is a central point at which could be gathered together, at a minimum of cost and inconvenience, the best that both islands could produce. Suggested by the Coronation Exhibition, the idea runs in a natural groove to the conviction that the two buildings now being used for Exhibition purposes ("U" and "J" stores) Would bo ideal for a winter show, and as they are to be used almost exclusively for the storage of wool and hemp, it goes without saying that tho winter months will find them empty. Both sheds are ideal for tho purpose mooted. In suggesting that a winter show should be held in Wellington in these premises, tho Harbour Board would, necessarily, have to approve. Not that it is contemplated that they would disapprove of such an idea. The chances are greatly in favour of tho board welcoming tho opportunity of getting a cash return from a portion of its property in tho manner suggested.' Apart froni that consideration the?e would be a deal of frame arising out of tho show, a proportion of which must be beneficial to tho board. In the caso of the idea being realised Marlborough. Nelson, and Canterbury would be sure to be well represented, and these goods would have to be passed over the wharves twice. Probably the. best time of the year to hold a, winter show in Wellington would be either before or immediately after thi Palmerston North Show. Parliament, as a rule, meets at the end of June, and that means the assembling in Wellington of tho members of both Houses of the Legislature,, their wiv«s, and a large number of officials and others interested in the work of Parliament, and exhibitors could, with a minimum of pass their products on from Palmerston North. With a double set of judges to pass an opinion, instead of one lot, exhibitors would know just really where they were. The city must benefit by a week's winter show. It would bring tho country people in, it would give a fillip to trade, and would help the tram and railway revenue accounts, and would, in a hundred little ways, iiifuse some little spirit, into tho mid-winter season, even as the Exhibition is doing at tho present time.