WANGANUI AGRICULTURAL SHOW

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10476, 13 November 1911, Page 5

WANGANUI AGRICULTURAL SHOW

. The event of the year is the Wanjganui Agricultural Show so far as 4ihe majority of the country people are concerned because they all look forward to spending a pleasant day km the Showgrounds on People's Day. Tlie grounds even now present quite a busy appearance. Mr. Ryves TVVeiblb and Ms large . staff of assistants) has for the past fortnight been

Alusily engaged making (preparations for the big carnival, the several di-! ' vuding railings, between the course proper and the No. 1 and No. 2 J (track® have been removed and a spacious judging ring arranged right in front of the grandstand. The. .jumps for the hunters and lady'' leaping competitions and pony jumping have been, erected right in front of the grandstand, so that thlose who like this part of the show can Bee every item to advantage. Then there has been a lot of extra work i on erecting a large numibeT of cattle and sheep pens, for the cattle and dheep pens which siufficed iast year j : are quite inadequate to accommodate., the extra number of entries received J ■tihis year. Again there are the j Shearing pens and board for the j -sfoeajrfuag competition flor boyis under j 21 years of age. Mr Campbell's I £.') os, prize shoaiM be keenly competed for. Post entries will be received iip to noon on Wednesday for this competition, and also for another competition that .should commend itself to farmers' sous, viz. wool-class-ing. For the modest outlay' of 2s, Mr J. E. Thomas' £5 priae may be ivron. The children's joy, the übiquitous .showman, has already arrived. .Alii d«y yesterday Grand Marshall Sinclair bad quite a busy time Blotting 'space to tine various sibfow- j men, including conjurors, acrobats, I circuses, aunt sallys, merry-go-j (rounds, .the miuch-lboomed though dianiniuitive statured Wc& General

Mite, and last, bait not least, the "Whizz." Dbn't mias it, boyis and girls. In wnseqfuem.ee of the ; extension of th'e railway concessions, nuost of tibe town© along the route la.re declaring a. jxubJio holiday on Tlhur,sday next. Exowision fares will ibe issiued from New Pflym'outh, Oha-ikune,-Najpier, M/asterton,' and Wellington, .and oil' .lntei'mediate stations.