Agricultural exhibitions - New Zealand - Taranaki Region

Date: 1936

From: [Show programmes and catalogues of quarto size. 1930-1939]

Reference: Eph-B-SHOW-1936-01

Description: Small poster gives the schedule of events to be held at the Waverley Show: trotting and jumping events, sheep, dairy and horse competitions, boys' and girls' agricultural clubs, and home industries (needlework, cooking, fruit and vegetables). Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, black on brown paper, 280 x 205 mm. Provenance: Donated by Bill Sheat, Lower Hutt, in 2015.

Date: 1910

By: South Taranaki Winter Show Company Ltd; C O Ekdahl (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-SHOW-South-Taranaki

Description: A schedule of categories for prizes, and general regulations. Categories include: cheese and butter making, ham and bacon, dairy utensils, school gardens, photography, penmanship, school essays, feancy work, farm produce, seeds and grains, grass seeds, fruit, poultry (ducks, hens, pigeons), cats, dogs. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Booklet of 36 pages, 220 x 140 mm.

Date: 1939 - 1943 - 1959

By: Stratford Agricultural & Pastoral Association (Inc)

Reference: Eph-A-SHOW-Stratford

Description: Includes programmes or catalogues for: 30th annual spring show and NZ Centennial, 24-25 November 1939 34th annual spring show 26-27 November 1943 Golden jubilee 50th annual show, 27-28 November 1959 Quantity: 3 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes around 215 x 140 mm. Provenance: One programme purchased in 2005.

Date: 1978 - 2015

Reference: Eph-A-SHOW-Egmont

Description: Includes: 95th Annual Summer Show. Hawera, 17-18 November 1978. Catalogue of entries 132nd Egmont A & P Show. Hawera, 21-22 November 2015. Leisure, treasure & pleasure schedule Quantity: 2 album(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes around 217 x 142 mm.

Date: 1926 - 1938

By: Taranaki Metropolitan Agricultural & Pastoral Society

Reference: Eph-A-SHOW-Taranaki

Description: Includes schedule or catalogues for: Taranaki Metropolitan Agricultural Society. Jubilee show to be held at the Society's Showgrounds, Waiwakaiho, New Plymouth, 3-4 March 1926. Schedule Taranaki Metropolitan Agricultural & Pastoral Society. 29th annual winter show, 21-24 June 1938. Catalogue. Quantity: 2 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes around 215 x 140 mm.

Date: 1917

From: Ephemera donated to and collected by the Alexander Turnbull Library from 2020

By: Taranaki Metropolitan Agricultural & Pastoral Society

Reference: Eph-B-MARCH-APRIL-2021/11

Description: Single-fold leaflet issued by the Taranaki Metropolitan Agricultural Society, containing a notice of the annual general meeting on 20th October 1917, and the Society's 42nd annual report for the year ended 31st August 1917. The annual report includes a statement from the secretary, William P Okey, and the president, J Conetti; names of donors and the values of donations; a balance sheet; and a statment of receipts and expenditures. Title taken from item. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing one piece of ephemera.

Date: [Dec 1947]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-8163-65

Description: Children in the calf club section walking with their animals, during the Egmont A & P (Agricultural and Pastoral) Show at the Hawera Showgrounds, circa December 1947. Photograph taken by a New Zealand Free Lance photographer during the grand parade. Photographer unidentified. Other - Published in the New Zealand Free Lance, 10 December 1947 Inscriptions: Verso - Exhibitors in the Calf Club Section during the Grand Parade Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16.3 x 21 cm

Date: [ca 1913]

From: McAllister, James, 1869-1952 :Negatives of Stratford and Taranaki district

Reference: 1/1-008128-G

Description: Draught horse at the A and P (agricultural and pastoral) showgrounds, Stratford, circa 1913. Probably the first or second annual show. Photograph taken by James McAllister. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 1931

From: Wall, John Reginald, 1870?-1944 :Photographs

Reference: 1/2-017794-G

Description: Prime Minister of New Zealand, George William Forbes, with cattle beast, 1931, at the New Plymouth show. Photograph taken by John Reginald Wall. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: [ca 1930]

From: Wall, John Reginald, 1870?-1944 :Photographs

Reference: 1/2-017797-G

Description: Scene at an agricultural fair, circa 1930s probably in the Stratford district. Shows children (judging?) a Jersey cow. Photograph taken by J R Wall. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative