AUCKLAND WINTER SHOW

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXII, Issue 2792, 19 May 1911, Page 3

AUCKLAND WINTER SHOW

OPENS NEXT MONDAY.

Since the beginning ot the week a large staff has been engaged in preparing the large "F" shed, Queen Street Wharf, Auckland, for the Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Association's Winter Exhibition, which opens on Monday next. A start has been made with the erection of the district courts, which are four in number, and will cover altogether some 1600 square feet oi space. There is keen competition in this section, tor which the Kaipara, Tauranga, Whangarei, and Franklin districts have entered". Last year only three districts competed, and this year Kaipara is represented for the first time. The display by the Agricultural Department, which will occupy 4000

square ieet oi space, is to be a prominent feature. Every branch pt the department's work will be represented, and the exhibit is likely to be both interesting and instructive alike to agriculturists and the general public.

A large display will be made in the industrial section, which is certain to be quite up to 1 the standard of ' previous years, though manufacturers of dairying machinery are not making such a showing as in 1910. There will, however, be several milking machines kept in operation daily, and in other respects

the section will be a representative one. The Jubilee Institute for the Blind has been allotted 600 square feet of space for a comprehensive exhibit of work done entirely by the students,^ number of whom will be at work on chair-making, type-writing, basket-making, etc. The exhibition, which is to be opened on Monday by the Minister for Agriculture (Hon. T. Mackenzie), will continue throughout the week, and is sure to attract visitors from every, corner of the district. '