September 2, 2014
Wondai Show organisers are happy with the 2014 event despite a small drop in gate figures.
Saturday was the main day of the show, clashing with the South Burnett rugby league and soccer grand finals as well as a host of other events.
Wondai Show Society secretary / treasurer Liz Stewart said she had received some fantastic responses from exhibitors but admitted she was a little disappointed in the gate numbers.
“They were down but not by a large amount, we still had around 2000 people,” she said.
She said the stud beef entries were up as were culinary, fruit and vegetable entries in the pavilion.
“Floriculture was obviously hit by frosts and drought,” she said.
“Needlework and handicrafts were also down a bit.”
Ring events were popular, especially the miniature horses and the carriages.
“I’d like to say a big thank you to chief ring steward Amanda Wagner who came on board just a week before the show and did an absolutely marvellous job,” she said.
In the stud beef cattle, Ekka junior champion limousin bull “Jen-Daview Jayboy”, exhibited by Jen-Daview Limousins, was named Supreme Exhibit of the show.
A chainsaw sculpture immortalising Charlotte, the late Wondai emu, was carved throughout the day by sculptor Matt George.
This wooden statue will be raffled with the funds raised to go to the major project to erect a permanent steel sculpture in Wondai.
The Wondai Show was officially opened by South Burnett councillor Kathy Duff.
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