Agricultural exhibitions - New Zealand - Canterbury Region

Date: 1951

By: Amuri Agricultural & Pastoral Association

Reference: Eph-A-SHOW-Amuri

Description: Includes: Centennial year show to be held at Rotherham on Saturday March 3rd, 1951. Offical catalogue. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes around 215 x 140 mm. Provenance: Purchased from New Zealand Book Auctions Ltd, in 2005.

Date: 1964

By: E A Jordan (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-SHOW-Canterbury-1964-01

Description: Eyre Group Boys' and Girls' Agricultural Clubs. Schedule of project and programme for stock parade. Ouruhia Domain 1964 $20.00 (A SHOW Canterbury 1964) Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 24 pages, each 210 x 137 mm.

Date: 1926 - 1959 - 1927

By: Timaru Agricultural & Pastoral Association (Inc)

Reference: Eph-A-SHOW-Timaru

Description: Includes schedule or catalogues for: 61st exhibition, 28-28 October 1926. Prize schedule and catalogue. 62nd exhibition. 26-27 October 1027. Prize schedule South Island Championship Show, 24-25 November 1959. Catalogue Quantity: 4 album(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes around 215 x 140 mm.

Date: 1872

From: Haast family: Collection

By: G Coates & Company

Reference: Curios-005-030

Description: Medal recto shows heraldic elements: the New Zealand coat of arms, an agricultural coat of arms, and a flax plant at top centre. The verso shows a tree fern, flank by a kiwi and a small moa, with a harbour scene in the background, with a Maori waka, two tree ferns and hills. Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: Bronze medal, 65 mm diameter, housed in brown leather case, 95 x 95 x 16 mm.

Date: 1927 - 1985

By: Temuka and Geraldine Agricultural & Pastoral Association (Inc)

Reference: Eph-A-SHOW-Temuka

Description: Includes schedule or catalogues for: 16th autumn show, held on the Show Grounds, Winchester, 31 March 1927. Catalogue of exhibits 75th grand jubilee autumn show. Showgrounds, Winchester, 1-2 March 1985. Catalogue Quantity: 2 album(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes around 215 x 140 mm.

Date: 14, 19 May 2007 - 14 May 2007 - 19 May 2007

From: Methven Heritage Project - RSA and Arable oral history project

By: Kelly, George David, 1916-2009

Reference: OHInt-0920-08

Description: Interview with George Kelly, born in Ashburton in 1916. Refers to growing up on a North Canterbury farm until his father sold it. Talks about his primary schooling, and boarding with his grandfather to attend Christchurch Boys High School. Mentions playing rugby and running. Discusses working for his father as a team driver with a four horse team ploughing for wheat crops. Talks about stacking sheaves to make stooks and stacking the dray. Recalls an electric tractor and traction engines. Refers to going shearing aroung Methven and Highbank for a time and buying a car. Talks about being a member of the Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry in the 1930s, training camps, and providing his own horse. Comments on working for several years as an attendant at Sunnyside Hospital and learning "a thing or two about people". Mentions marrying his wife Hilary in 1939, and joining the Police force. Comments that he could not serve overseas in the army during the War because he was a policeman. Refers to resigning from the police when his father had a heart attack [ca. 1948/49] and running the farm for a year. Discusses the difficulty he had buying his own farm Spring Lynne and having help to pay off the mortgage. Talks about arable farming, growing tama grass, peas and clover for seed, wheat and barley, and selling wool during the Korean War. Comments on his Romney flock, number of ewes, and drafting lambs. Discusses the arrival of the Lyndhurst irrigation scheme. Comments on the Springfield water supply and water rates. Mentions giving up irrigating and getting a well drilled for water. Refers to the Winchmore Research Station and fertilizer trials. Recalls his farm staff over the years. Refers to the Lauriston Farm Club and farm advisors. Mentions the vet club. Talks about the Methvyn Trotting Club and horses that he and his father bred. Outlines his involvement with the Canterbury A & P Association over three decades including being Association president. Mentions judging horses and ponies at shows and presenting trophies. Discusses the Springfield Pony Club and other pony clubs in Canterbury. Reflects on farming in the Methven district and welcomes the arrival of dairying in the area. Interviewer(s) - Kathryn McKendry Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-016752 - OHC-016754 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 2.57 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Textual files - Adobe pdf Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6030, OHDL-001825. Search dates: 1916 - 2007

Date: 1970

Reference: Eph-A-SHOW-Ellesmere

Description: Includes: Catalogue of entries for the Centennial Show. Leeston Showground, 16-17 October 1970 Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes around 217 x 142 mm.

Date: 1938

From: Waimate Agricultural and Pastoral Association: [Show programmes and catalogues]

Reference: Eph-A-SHOW-Waimate-1938-01

Description: Show programme lists officers of the Waimate A&P Association 1882-1938, and lists all the categories of entries: sheep (Border Leicesters, Corriedales, English Leicesters, South Downs, Romneys, Ryeland, Crossbreds, fat sheep and lambs; Ewe hogget competition); Sheep dog trials; Cattle (Shorthorn, Ayrshires, Jersey, Friesians, any breed, fat stock); Horses (Draught stock, Thoroughbreds, Hackneys and Hunters, Light harness horses, Cobbs and ponies); Pigs (Berkshires, Tamworths); Sheep dogs, dairy produce, Sundies (Baking), Home Industries section, Women's Institute's Bays Competition; Pupils' cookery; Best handwriting. There is a list of the Mercantitle and machinery firms' 15 stands. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 66 pages, 212 x 140 mm.

Date: 1968

By: Peninsula Horse Show and Pastoral Association

Reference: Eph-A-SHOW-Peninsula

Description: Includes schedule or catalogues for: 1968: Catalogue of entries for fifty-fourth (54th) shows to be held at Duvauchelle, Saturday January 27, 1968. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes around 217 x 142 mm.

Date: 1981

By: Waimate Agricultural and Pastoral Association (Inc)

Reference: Eph-A-SHOW-Waimate

Description: Includes schedules or catalogues for: 1938: Waimate Agricultural & Pastoral Association: Fifty-seventh annual exhibition of stock, agricultural produce and farm implements. Kitchener Park, Gorge Road, Waimate, 16 November 1938. Catalogue 1981 Centennial show. Kitchener Park, 20-21 November 1981. Catalogue Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes around 215 x 140 mm.

Date: 1991 - 2005

Reference: Eph-A-SHOW-Mackenzie

Description: Includes: 1991: Ninety-third annual show. Mackenzie Highland Show. Showgrounds, Fairlie, 1 April 1991. Catalogue 2005: 107th Mackenzie Highland Show; annual show of stock, agricultural produce and farm implements. Showgrounds Fairlie, 28 March 2005. Catalogue Alexander Turnbull Library Serials Collection has catalogues for 106th (2004), 110th (2008) shows Quantity: 2 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes around 217 x 142 mm.

Date: 1866

From: Woodhouse, Airini Elizabeth, 1896-1989: Photographs of Timaru

Reference: PAColl-4746-03

Description: The first Timaru agricultural show, Elizabeth Street, 1866. Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 8.4 x 10.8 cm

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 8

By: McKenzie family

Reference: PAColl-6075-01

Description: Men outside a committee room at an Agricultural and Pastoral show, circa 1910, probably in Canterbury. An advertisement for the publication "New Zealand Farmer"is visible. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).