Auckland's Winter Show

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 382, 16 June 1928, Page 27

Auckland's Winter Show

Record Fixture Anticipated Many New Features ARRANGEMENTS are now well in hand for the Auckland \\ inter Show scheduled to commence an eleven days’ session at the Central Wharf Sheds on July 11. Entries close on Wednesday next. Indications are that the fixture will create fresh records and be a fittin<r testimony to the secondary and primary industrial activity of the province.

Several new features for this dis-i trict are to be introduced to this winter’s fixture. Improvements to old j are also planned. Thus it is hoped that the show will have an additional draw on the public. From the farmers’ point of view, one of the most attractive innovations will be the stock section. Provisiou has been made for ten exhibition stalls of representative dairy breeds —Jerseys, Friesians, Ayrshires and Shorthorns. Animals selected for production as well as type will be shown throughout the fixture in hygienic and attractively decorated stalls. Representatives of the various breed societies will be in attendance, prepared to supply information in regard to their respective breeds. Lectures and demonstrations will also be given at various times during the stow. The section has proved one .of the most popular features at similar fixtures throughout the Dominion. It is pleasing to note also on behalf of the man on the land that the Department of Agriculture will be represented in a large stand got up in a way intended to give an idea of the great work the department is carrying out throughout the country in an endeavour to help the farmer arrive at the best and most economical methods of handling his holding. Root crop exhibits, which were such a strong feature at Hamilton this year, are not expected to be very much to the fore at the Auckland fixture. This section could well be better patronised. An innovation as far as New Zealand shows are concerned has been introduced in a managers’ butter and cheese competition. The entrance fee consists of the entry, a 561 b. box of butter or crate of cheese, and the first prize, if the entries number 20 or

less, in either instance, will be 40 per cent, of the entries. If the entries number more than 20 in either instance, the first prize will be 35 per cent, of the entries. In addition to entries of primary products it is anticipated that the manufacturing intersets will be well represented. All the available space for this purpose has been booked up. For those of the public who go to the show merely for amusement, a comprehensive programme has been arranged and, in addition, the services of five or six bands have been engaged. Undoubtedly the feature section of the show should be that given over to the district courts. Here increased effort is expected from the individual districts concerned, and it is hoped that the section will prove the strongest and best of its kind yet seep in the Dominion. The advertising possibilities of au exhibition such as the one to be staged in Auckland next month are immense. Year after year chambers of commerce and similar bodies talk of the need of advertising the fertility and attractiveness of their individual districts. A provincial winter show provides the way. Many thousands of visitors will attend Lhe Auckland fixture. A well got-up district court would do much to fix the district in their mind as a place worth visiting in the near future. Similarly, attractively arranged industrial displays have a big advertising field to work upon. Let it he hoped, therefore that entries on Wednesday next will constitute a record \id that the fixture will be a success fron> all points of view.