HAWKE’S BAY SHOW

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 August 1938, Page 3

HAWKE’S BAY SHOW

Intending exhibitors at the Hawke’s Bay A. and P. Society’s spring show will be interested to learn that the schedule is now available. The committee in its endeavour to improve and maintain the interest and value of the Show draws attention to the following new classes and special prizes. In the horse section the Sir Douglas McLean Memorial Cup is offered for most points in the Clydesdale section Clydesdale section and a class has been added for yearling hack. In the class for entire best calculated to improve saddle horses a special prize has been added for the entire considered most suitable to produce military horses. In the Beef Cattle Section great interest will be attached to the cup for which all first prize animals will compete. In the sheep section classes have been included for Dorset Horn sheep and by a grant of £lO from the N.Z. Meat Producers Board the prize money has been increased in the district fat lamb competition. Exhibits for this competition will be penned on the second day only. In the horse competitions a valuable cup has been presented as a memorial to the late Mr Charles E. Twist and will be awarded for the horse securing most points in the leaping events other than ponies. Copies of the schedule are available from the secretary (Mr A. M. Retemeyer), Church Lane, Napier, or Mr F. C. Wilkinson, Queen Street, Hastings. Entries for all sections other than schools close on September 28.