WINTER SHOW AT NEW PLYMOUTH.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 40, 9 June 1914, Page 4

WINTER SHOW AT NEW PLYMOUTH.

The Taranaki Agricultural Society’s fifth annual Winter Show will he opened at New Plymouth to-morrow, and those who have charge of this import-; ant function promise that the event; will be the most nettractive W inter j Show New Plymouth has yet attempt-j ed. Each year since the inception has, seen good progress made, and the Society was perfectly right in instituting the gathering, which is now looked forward to ns a pleasant and instructive winter holiday. The official opening will take place to-morrow afternoon at half-past two o’clock, when the Member for Taranaki, and other gentlemen will give short addresses. It is, perhaps, as well also to remind our readers—at any rate those who do not have many opportunities of seeing deep-water shipping—that the largest ocean-going steamer that lias ever berthed at New Plymouth is now lying at the breakwater, the Walkure from Hull having arrived safely at the Port yesterday morning. That event is certainly an important one, because although the dredging of the fairway! has not. yet been completed, even in the shallowest part of it the M alkurc, drawing twenty-two feet of water, had not less than nine or ten feet of water under her, and when berthed she had more than twenty feet between her keel and the sea-bottom. To those who may possess doubts as to the utility of New Plymouth’s Breakwater, and who do not realise the great possibilities of the harbor at Moturoa, wo should advise a visit, to New Plymouth at this time so that they may witness for themselves how easily and how safely a big ship lies in that harbor. That the Walkure is now berthed there, is very largely due to the enterprise of Mr Newton King, whose splendid efforts on behalf of the Port of Taranaki have been continuous and untiring, though often in the face of strongest opposition. That Mr King lias faith in the harbor’s future is fully assured, and that he should bo the first to charter a full ship direct from Britain to New Plymouth is fitting and quite in keeping with his masterly action in many other matters affecting the welfare of this province.