At the Spring Show

A record gate and attendance sealed the success of the Poverty Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Association's 85th annual Spring Show, which ran for two days at the Showgrounds last month.

Poor weather on the Friday and Saturday morning failed to curb the attendance of almost 9000 non-member patrons, who were justly rewarded in the afternoon with beautiful sunny weather.

The highlight of the show was, as usual, the grand parade, which saw hundreds of competitors parading in an enormous circle around the ring.

The trades section appeared to be slightly smaller than last year, but contained a wide variety of products.

Side-show alley was its usual bustling self, reverberating to the incessant sound of countless side-show barkers and booming loud speakers.

Patrons of the Big Wheel soar skywards

Miss Sharen Mills, on Monte Carlo, clears a jump in fine style to win the Pony International, Table A, competition.

Veteran Gisborne chopper Mr Wally Varley put aside his axe to compete in a crosscut sawing competition, in which he was placed second with Mr Jack Sanders.

In side-show alley a young son takes his Dad for a hair-raising ride in a dodgem

The grand parade, viewed from the western end of the showgrounds.

The president of the A and P Association, Mr G. E. Law, presenting Mr R. F. Hutchinson with the coveted Meat and Wool Cup, which he won with his yearling hull, Waihuka Wilson the First.

One of the Meat and Wool Cup judges examines the winning bull.

It was a great day for the Law family, with the president's daughter Carolyn, and her horse Marcus, winning the Champion Hack, Reserve Champion Hunter, plus four first and three second placings in other jumping events. She is pictured receiving one of her ribbons from her mother, Mrs G. E. Law.

Pony riders parade in front of the record crowd

Leading the grand parade were Mr B. McCullough with his supreme champion dairy cow, Spring-fields Bertha, and Mr B. Rogers with A. R. Rogers' Brelade Glamour, the reserve champion.

In the trades section, a crowd gathers to watch a salesman demonstrate a new carpet cleaner....

....while elsewhere, another salesman expounds the theories of his particular product.

A young girl thrills to a ride on a merry-go-round......

In side-show alley a hideous head suitably advertises the ghost train

.....while another watches her friends ride the chairoplane

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The Gisborne Photo News

No 137 : November 3, 1965

At the Spring Show