COME TO THE FAIR!

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24421, 5 October 1940, Page 9

COME TO THE FAIR!

CARNIVAL ATTRACTIONS "YEOLDE ENGLISHE FAYRE" BIG EVENT FOR OCTOBER 19 "The Sun is a-Shining to Welcome the Day, Heigh-Ho, Come to the Fair All Dunedin will surely be coming to this particular fair, "Ye Olde Englishe Fayre," to be more explicit, which is to make Saturday, October 19. a day to be long remembered in Dunedin. It is being organised on a grand scale as a high peak ol the £IOO,OOO Queen Carnival, and indie: tions even at this early stage guarantee that it will be one of the brightest features of the drive to raise funds for the rehabilitation of members of all branches of the fighting services on their return to civilian life. ! There, will be fiddles and Dands "Flaying ,the tunes that you know," drums beating, there'll be "racing and chasing from morning to night "—in fact, ialinost every conceivable encouragement to everyone to "lock up his house?: there'll be plenty of fun." Dunetjin's ;first real fair, this will be. in nearly 60 years. In fact, only once before "has- this city indulged in the fascinating goings-on that have made the old English fairs such apt subjects for song and : stofy 4 and that was aWay back'in-1882, when the men; and women who were building Dunedin's foundations staged, just a rally It a great success; too, from all records;.-bu,t it is oHvibusrthat the far more extensive facilities. available to the • 194 U promoters will enable them to stage something even more enthralling. If energetic organising and thorough attention to the thcusand-and-one details' necessary to the success of such an ..undertaking are. a guide to P=pul?. r favour. Saturday,' October 19. will be. : a memorable day. Mr Arthur Macdonald first brought forward the suggestion, and now he has committees and sub-committee> representative of every section of the community working under his guidance to bring it into being. The co-operation of the City Council has been obtained with the result that all traffic is to be suspended in the middle of the city. High carnival is to be held without hindrance or interruption, from midway in Princes street right through the Octagon and well down George street. There are to be stalls galore—--120 of them, according to the present estimate—established along the middle of the roadway and laden with all sorts of temptations, gipsy maids to tell your fortune, dancing girls, fancy dresses of an extraordinary variety, bathing beautr contests, . archery, wrestling, boxing, weight-lifting, sideshows, dancing—in fact, frivolity of almost every imaginable description consistent with the traditions of the fair. There will be milkmaids buffoons, ventriloquists—but it would be too much here to enumerate even most of Hhe contributions that will transform the heart of a busy city into a~ laughing, bustling fair." . On the face of it, the undertaking is a stupendous one. On the evening of Friday. October 18 the business ef the city will be going on as usual. 'But first thing on Saturday morning a small army of workers will be taking charge of the streets, and the transformation process will be in full swing. There will be no clanging trams or traffic of any kind to interTrams will. be. stopped at the Exchange in the south •"andVatFrederick street in the north, but H • subsidiary service wilt'Sße provided ■. by . buses; which "will make a detour to join up There will be four entrances ; bhly to the fair—George and Princes streets and Upper and Lower Stuart,- streets. '-Everything-else .will be roped off to: provide a spacious area for:r.the enjoyment; of gaiety untrammelled. »''v .-\ •', • ' ' ' ' from one. to\the#her, and they*; will be-unfortunate indeed who find the^elv'es;able. ;: t6';resist the invitation to -'deck" yourselves out in your finest array> With a;Heigh-ho. Come to the