ODDS AND ENDS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 60, 2 June 1927, Page 10

ODDS AND ENDS

When the National Antliem was being played at closing-time last night, a Chinese who failed to remove his hat had it roughly knocked off by an indignant bystander. A racial clash was imminent for a moment but the Celestial thought better of it. No section of the show has been singled out for special popularity. Motor-cars, it might be noted, do not seem to exert their former degree of fascination, but the adjoining art section is always crowded. A Plunket room, post and telegraph office, and ladies’ rest-room are among the amenities provided. In some essential respects, however, the crowd is only primitively catered for. An enterprising Farmers’ Cooperative concern has a free tearoom, an infallible draw. Space is limited, and the queue is always long. * * * Potatoes displayed at the show are not of the class of former years. One of the successful exhibitors was Mr. N. Christenson, a devoted grower, who cultivates his patch before and after doing an arduous day’s road-work. “Taranaki, via. King Country, to the Sunny Waikato,” is the title of an attractive souvenir booklet issued by the Railway Department in connection with the special farmers’ train from Hawera~ * * * Produce came to the show in divers ways. Ancient vans creaked beneath loads of turnips, but cars carried most of The burden. Strangest of all was the bantam, a prize-winner in the poultry section, which arrived under the arm of its elderly owner. * * # Persian cats exhibited by Mrs. D. Sutton at a private stall attracted a lot of attention. The beautiful animals caused many to regret that more cat shows are not staged in New Zealand. Supreme grace and quickness of movement are the qualities of the domestic puss, and playful kittens, extending to the inquirer a tentative paw, bearing the “trousered” appearance of immaturity, can be watched, even by the adult, for hours.