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September 2024 Edition
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THIS EDITION College clash
p3 Drone spraying
p14 Review welcomed Get in behind: the cost of adult tickets to this year’s revamped Christchurch Show have been halved and the organisers are calling on Cantabrians and agri-businesses to support the new event.
p28 Olympic cooks
The Show must go on
Drone racing and the return of the tractor pulling competition will be two events to be held at the revitalised Christchurch Show being run by the Canterbury A&P Association and its new event partner.
] by Kent Caddick p34
The show was in danger of not going ahead after the Canterbury A&P Association (CAPA) Board pulled the plug earlier this year on the New Zealand Agricultural Show event, which was scheduled to run over three days in early November. At the time the board cited financial considerations for its decision however sub-
sequently the association reached an agreement with the Christchurch City Council (CCC) which agreed to buy back the 100-year lease CAPA 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, and 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. Then in June CAPA signed an agreement with Christchurch based events’ company Event Hire to run a slimmed down version of the Show, which will be renamed the Christchurch Show for 2024, to be held in November.
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