Much Bigger Fiji
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Show This Year
Fiji's second Show since the war,, held at Suva's Buckhurst Park in mid-October, attracted large atten dances and was much bigger tham the Show held the previous year., In officially opening the Show l on Saturday, October 13, Fiji's!
Governor, Sir Kenneth Maddocks,, said it was doing valuable work: in encouraging agricultural andl pastoral activities, and in interest ing the public in agricultural pro duction.
He hoped that in future the Fiji!
Show Association would be able: to promote subsidiary shows inr other parts of the Colony.
Among the outstanding displays was one arranged by the South Pacific Sugar Mills Ltd. which demonstrated the wide distribution among all classes of money earned: overseas from Fiji's sugar.
Most exhibits dealt in the main with goods and machinery de signed and manufactured to in-i crease and improve the products of the soil. But many others ap< plied equally to the home and: farm.
The stock exhibits included am outstanding dairy cattle section,! with some entries -eaching a very high standard. The Show's ring events were especially popular.
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