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Slim show gets greenlight The Canterbury A&P Association’s annual show is back on thanks to an agreement with an event hire company.
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The Canterbury A&P Association (CAPA) cancelled this year’s New Zealand Agricultural Show, scheduled for November, back in April due to its shaky financial position. The Association’s precarious financial position received a boost in May when it signed an agreement with the Christchurch City Council (CCC) over the 100-year lease it held on the show’s venue Canterbury Agricultural Park. Council agreed to pay $5 million for the purchase of the remaining 95 years of the lease. A condition of the payment was that CAPA used $1 million to pay off an existing loan it had with the council, while the remaining $4 million went into a newly established, capital protected charitable investment trust. At that time the council’s General Manager Citizens and Community Andrew Rutledge
said the agreement was beneficial to both parties. “The A&P Show is such an important event for both the rural and local community, bringing people from around the country to our city. “This agreement will support the future of the Show and the surrendering of the lease will allow us to use part of the land for additional sports fields in the south-west of the city,” Rutledge said. Following that announcement the Association was approached by a private company Event Hire to see if they could come to an agreement on whether it was possible to put together an event for 2024. In June an agreement between CAPA and Event Hire will see a slimmed down version of the Show, which will be renamed the Christchurch Show for 2024, be held in November.
The Christchurch Show will be held over Thursday, Friday and Saturday of Cup and Show Week (November 14-16), while the A&P Association would run some of its animal competitions and events from Wednesday through to Friday, which is a public holiday in Canterbury. Event Hire managing director Phil Anderson said the Christchurch Show will include traditional elements of an A&P Show, including stallholders, food vendors, competitions and amusement rides. Anderson said they made the move to go from Thursday to Saturday in the hope that Saturday will make it more attractive for people, including those outside the region, to come in and experience what the show feels like. He said they had been involved with the show for the past few years so understood what was needed.
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