“ Bigger, Better, Brighter

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 982, 27 May 1930, Page 11

“ Bigger, Better, Brighter

WAIKATO WINTER SHOW

‘‘ World’s Best Dairy Display ” 7HE SUS S Special Reporter HAMILTON, Today. FULL to overflowing in every section, the 24th annual fixture of the Waikato Winter Show Association, opened by the Governor-General. Lord Bledisloe, this. afternoon, justifies the contention of its promoters —“The World’s Best Dairy Show.” Fresh Records from the dual points of quality and quantity were established in many sections. Judged on its show, the Waikato can he fittingly termed “A land flowing with milk and honey.” The march of progress is never- of dairy companies in the province ending; standing still means retro- favour butter-making compared to C‘116656 gression. It is ever thus. The dis-

covery of today is followed by a fresh finding of the morrow, and records j of quality or quantity are only made to be broken. The Waikato Winter Show Association has never stood still. Each year it has been to the rest of the Dominion the shop window of the ■growing dairying and agricultural I activities of the Waikato. It has re- j fleeted the development of the dis- j trict from a state wherein its farmers were mostly hard put to make financial ends meet, to the present, where, hand in hand with the findings of science, farming has been raised to the status of a profession, and its produce is exported to all parts of the globe. RECORD BUTTER EXHIBIT Row behind row, tier upon tier, the dairy produce section, effectively displayed behind a great wide archway bearing the words “Production Means Prosperity,” provides the keynote to the phenomenal development of Waikato farmlands, in recent years. It is the big. feature of the show, and one which gives it world-wide significance, for the 1,030 entries from all parts of New Zealand make up the biggest exhibitions of dairy produce ever staged in any of the more important dairying countries of the world. In several sections over 30 entries, drawn from factories scattered from North Auckland to Southland, came forward. The open butter championship of New Zealand drew 45 entries, which showed quality of the highest degree. Entries of butter totalled 685, and the number of cheese exhibits 354 quite an understandable ratio when it is refnembered that the majority

HIGH STANDARD OF GOVERNMENT EXHIBITS Government departments were again well represented, a section of one hall being taken up with stands in which the Railway Department, the Agricultural Department, and the Forestry Department have displays, both educational and interesting from

the point of view of excellence and ■wide range of activities covered. No pains have been spared to show that each of these departments is out to give a definite service to the public. No visitor can pass through the Governments stands and move among the various trade exhibits, and not be impressed with the big part science is playing in modern farming. The

information based on the latest teachings of science is available to the man on the land; the wide range of modern farm machinery suggests that the onus is largely on the farmer today to say whether or no production is to continue to increase. In all, it is wonderfully impressive, and shows clearly that farming in the Waikato today is not a side issue, but that it has a big and ever-growing section of the community catering for its every need. The wide and varied attractions make the show full of interest to all sections of the community. The trade displays are a striking testimony to the rising standard of living of the Waikato farmer. The exhibition of motor-cars takes up a whole hall, and even then isolated stands are scattered throughout other parts of the building. The school children's section has been exceptionally well supported, and makes a very fine showing. Progress, in fact, is the real keynote of the show. The Waikato is right on the top of the wave of progress at the moment, and the event is fittingly refected in its great winter exhibition.