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Thursday, September 28, 1972
PREPARATIONS FOR AGRICULTURAL SHOW UNDER WAY
Preparations for this year's Agricultural Show, the biggest to be
held in Hong Kong, are now well under way.
The show, to be held on the Sek Kong Airstrip in the New Territories
from December 8 to 11, will be officially opened by the Governor, Sir Murray
MacLehose.
It again promises to provide plenty of entertainment as well as
information for both farmers and city-dwellers.
For the farmer, there is an opportunity to learn the latest developments
in crop and animal husbandry and to participate in some 150 competitions for
the best livestock, vegetables, fruits, flowers or pot plants.
For the family on a country outing, there will be a 'children's corner'
where in addition to pets and playthings, live mules will be used to take
children for rides.
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A series of cookery demonstrations by well-known chefs, with a different
vegetable for each recipe, should prove popular with housewives.
serious-minded will be interested in the numerous display stalls to be set up
by government departments, the army, public organisations, and commercial firms.
Entertainment programmes, including demonstrations by a police dog team
and army horse-riders, are being arranged, and the Education Department is
planning a drawing competition among school children, with the best pictures to
be exhibited at the Show.
/The organisers