PREPARING FOR SHOW

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 980, 24 May 1930, Page 6

PREPARING FOR SHOW

1,000 WORKMEN BUSY WAIKATO’S WINTER DISPLAY From Our Otcn Correspondent HAMILTON, Friday. ! It is estimated that more than 1,000 people are working within the Waikato Winter Show buildings today, preparing for next week’s big exhibition. Already there has been a big influx of commercial and advertising men from all parts, who have long recognised the enormous publicity value of the Waikato Show. : Hamilton is looking forward eagerly i to the first official visit next week of : the Governor-General and Lady Bledisj loe. A big round of functions has | been arranged during the three days ! the vice-Regal party will be here, j among which will be the opening of I the Winter Show on Tuesday, and the ■ opening of the Waikato Diocesan School for Girls on Wednesday. * * * More than I,GOO new number-plates ! have been issued to motor-vehicle owners in Hamilton. There are still 3,000 registrations to be made before the end of the month. Four hundred delegates and their wives are expected at Hamilton on June 24, 25, and 26, for the annual conference of the National Dairy Association. Many questions of vital interest to the dairying industry will be discussed.

“That the Abolition of Capital Punishment Would Benefit Society” was the subject of a keenly contested debate held by the YV.E.A. Debating Club on Thursday evening. Leaders for the affirmative were Miss A. Greville and Mr. Rawlings. Messrs. C. C. Tidmarsh and T. H. Chester spoke for the negative. The motion was carried.

At a meeting of the Church of England parishioners at Taupiri this week it was reported that the finances of the parish were in a very unsatisfactory condition. It was resolved to hold a house-to-house canvass. Much useful work is reviewed in the annual report of the Hamilton branch of the National Council of Women. As the result of representations, a class for “retardate” children for the Waikato had been formed; a branch of the Open-air Schools League had been established; and much propaganda had been distributed. Increased membership is referred to.

The next Waikato Diocesan Synod has been fixed to commence on July 7.

Plasterers and interior decorators are putting the finishing touches to the new block of the Hamilton Hotel. It is understood that many of the new bedrooms will be available during Show Week. The shops on the Victoria Street frontage are among the finest in Hamilton, and have nearly all been leased already.

Good progress is being made with the installation of the east window in the east wall of St. Peter’s Cathedral.

Miss W. Randle, of Matangi, who was seriously injured in the recent motor collision at News-tead, when Mr, T. jB. Shaw was killed, is making good progress.

Mr. M. K. Mara, who has conducted the Waikato Regimental and Municipal Band for the past two years, has resigned. At the band committee meeting on Thursday evening the resignation was accepted with regret, appreciative reference being made to Mr. Mara, under whose control the band had advanced steadily.

It was decided to appoint a welfare officer to co-operate with existing charitable bodies, to organise relief and to act us probation officer to the Magistrate’s Court, at a meeting of the Waikato Social Welfare League on Thursday night. The secretary, Mr. E. P. Cowles, said the public was strongly supporting the league, and • had given or promised £lO<J in one morning. WAIKATO SHOW OPENING ON TUESDAY The Waikato Winter Show will be opened by his Excellency the Gover-nor-Generai on Tuesday. The show Win extend over a period of seven days. All tho wealth of the Waikato, pastoral and industrial, will be represented there. Up-to-date farm machinery, produce, cattle and manufactures will be on exhibition.