Michelle Thornton, above, and Darren Dangerfield, from Kilcoy, won the Bantam Soft Feather Champion Of The Show with this Frizzle Bantam hen; the couple also won Large Soft Feather Champion with a White Leghorn hen

May 5, 2015

Kingaroy Show weekend had the weather stacked against it – and lots of the events were cancelled – but you wouldn’t have known anything was amiss by the large number of smiling faces at the showgrounds.

The heavy rain in the lead-up to the weekend meant the Saturday night speedway meeting had to be cancelled – the speedway club’s last scheduled event for this season – because there was just too much water on the track.

Likewise, the junior motorbike races were also cancelled as well as the Grand Parade and the show-jumping on Sunday.

The beef cattle, dairy cattle, miniature horses and all equestrian events also could not go ahead.

However, a Young Judges competition managed to be pulled together on Saturday morning with the special help of the Kingaroy State High School agriculture department who loaned some cattle.

The truck show on Saturday and the ute show on Sunday also weren’t affected.

Show Society secretary Leesa Baker told southburnett.com.au the numbers through the gate were definitely down from last year but considering all the rain that fell on Friday, they were still good.

Some people stayed away fearing the grounds would be a quagmire, but the showgrounds actually held up well – after a lot of hard work put in by Show Society members and volunteers.

A large vacuum was brought in on Friday afternoon to suck up water, and following the cancellation of the cattle competitions, the sawdust from the cattle pavilions was brought over and spread around the tracks.

Volunteers worked into Friday night and began again early on Saturday morning to make certain everything was right.

Leesa said some of the Pavilion competitions were also down in numbers as people had not been able to drop off their entries – especially in the culinary sections – because they had been stranded at home.

Some of the expected produce, pot plant and cut flowers entries were also wrecked by the rain.

However, Leesa said the school displays this year were “brilliant” and the bad weather had only kept one trade display from turning up. There was also a large number of entries in the Lego competition.

Show highlights for the children were the free showbags, a huge sideshow alley with some very scary rides, and a massive fireworks show on Saturday night.

“All the people that did come along enjoyed themselves and had a good time,” Leesa said.

Damen Lowrie, from Lowrie’s Meat House at Wooroolin, was doing meat displays … he made sausages, showed the correct way to slice up rump steaks, explained what to look for in a good piece of meat and even showed how to cut up a side of pork, donated by Swickers for the occasion
Madison, 7, and Amelia Postlethwaite, 5, from Kingaroy were taking part in the taekwondo display
Tully, 5, and (Show Princess) Ellenor Anderrson, 7, had a busy day … first the Eistedfodd and then the show!
Jimmy, 5; Lucy, 10; and Rory Crumpton, 7, were enjoying their free showbags (and the stook of peanuts)
Trevor Black, from Kumbia, showed the Champion sheaf of sorghum
Darcy English, 7, Nanango, won Junior Champion with a Bantam Pitgame hen
Malcolm and Kelvin Clifford, from Kingaroy, showed the Grand Champion and Reserve Grand Champion, an Old English Game Black Red cockerel and a Black Tail Wheaten hen
Ten-year-olds Daniella Nassif and Hannah Elliot, from Kingaroy, and Kristy Young, from Wooroolin, were proudly showing off their face-paintings
Professor Wallace’s puppet show was keeping the smaller children happy
The “Extreme Thriller” gave some extreme thrills to those game enough to give it a go
John Jewell, from the Brisbane Valley, had a display of historic items – everything from snake and ostrich skins to old pieces of farm machinery and tools; he also put on displays of rope-making and broom making … John has been taking his “Australia’s Living History” display around local shows for 15 years
Sarah Barker, from Kingaroy, with Craig Lucas … Craig was steward for the Home Brewing and Lego competitions
Peter Undery, from Gordonbrook, was steering one of the two “trains” taking people around the showgrounds
2015 1st Division woodchop winners, from left, Mitchell Argent, 1st; John Gossow, 2nd; Gerald Youles, 3rd; and Craig Wagner, 4th

  

 

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