sydney, May 3.
The curtain has been dropped on Sydney's Royal Show, with its festive robing, its glitter and glamour, and thousand and one other hoppy manifestations of a great pageant that is a traditional part of the people's life, One could not help observing the extraordinary interest evidenced this eer, by women as well as men, in ihe ¢atlle as they paraded round the crowded rings before the judges The crowds round the cattle rings not only constituted a record in the Mistery of the Show, but they included 2 more than ordinarily large umber of women, country women, for the most part. Many could not find accommodation even in the several tiers of seats bordering each ring. What applied to its utmost eepacity, applied to every other class, That the Society, with its 72 acres of space already crowded, will have look skyward and build upwards, to meet effectively the insist fent and ever-growing demands on accommodation, cen easily be understood. It closes one show only to. be immediately faced with the problem of yet bigger crowds at the ext one.
in. the cattle rings one saw the cream of the cattle of Australia, the cading studs in the Commonwealth being represented by stock of their own breeding as well as by impor-{ations from abroad:
Agricultural machinery, another feature, told strikingly the story of the evolution of the farming system, with the ready utilization of the new powers that have been brought the men on the land science and engineering, in con~ (rest, with the days when they had to wring a living out of the soil almost wholly by manual labour.
People who éo not own motor cars, and some who do, gazed with envious eyes at the display of vehicles, each of them the last word in refinement and grace of fine, and in comfort and appointments. The show wherever one looked, is not merely the State's shop window; it was, again, the microcosm, the epitome of Australian national lite
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