The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-10-11
Maui County Fair
Opens to Public
Thursday Morning
Many improvements To Greet
Visitors Eyes and Exhibits
Are Promised To Be More
Comprehensive Than Ever.

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Thursday morning the gates of the
Fair Grounds at Kahului will open to
the public and the Fourth Maui Coun-
ty Fair will be in progress. Within
the grounds, meantime, all its hustle
and hurry in preparation for the
best Fair Maui has ever had, booths
have to be completed amusement
places erected, exhibits put in place
and such preparatory work will be
going on almost up to the opening
hour.
Numerous changes and improve
ments will be noted this year by
those who have not been in the
grounds recently. Especially is this
the case in the lighting arrangements
for the proposed underground wiring
system with ornamental pillars for
lights has been installed and was Civ
en- its first try out Saturday evening.
II worked beautifully and the grounds
We're brilliantly Illuminated. fairly
ablaze with white lights. Showmen
from the mainland who are here said
they had never seen finer grounds
nor more perfect illumination in
grounds or parks in communities of
a hundred thousand on the mainland.
Mauiitcs made highly complimentary
ccmDai isons with former years. Large
numbers were there to see the sys-
TEN given its tryout. Every depart
ment, practically, reports a greater in
terest than in the past years. and in
creases in exhibits together with ans
Improvement of class. The entertain
ment programs for each day are high
lNy e two IND or
snap and gaiety than ever before.
tnte rtainment ApIenty
thursdays racing program in
cludes a half mile for Hawaiian bred
horses half mile cowboy, half mile
Japanese, half mile mule race
| and mile free for all the chief events
being the first and last mentioned
numbers in which there is list of
high class entries with eight entered
| in the last race.
For the Friday race program there
| is half mile free for all, nine en-
| tries, half mile for two year olds, half
| mile shell back and mile Hawaiian
| bred.
| Other entertainment features for
Thursday are trap shooting for four
| teams, four bicycle races, baseball
game for Inter-Island Championship
| between Hilo Chinese and the Ma
KEGS of Kauai, band concerts,
| Might in Jazzland" and a free box
| ing exhibition by men from the army
| and navy.
On Friday among the entertain
ment features are trap shooting, four
teams, Junior baseball game, Spreck-
| elsville VS. Wailuku Gym, a program
| of 16 numbers by Maui's Boy Scouts,
| baseball, Maui vss Makees of Kauai,
band concerts and a night with the
| Honolulu Ad Club in which will be
| included the Bathing Girls Revue"
| and some or the best stunts the Ad
| Club has ever put on.
| For the bicycle races on Thursday
the following prizes are announced:
| Mile open, clock and bicycle tire;
half mile for boys, $3.50 baseball,
cap; two mile relay, bicycle racing
suit to each member of winning
| team; twenty minute race, bicycle,
| two tires and one tire.
All Reports Favorable
In no department more than the
poultry will greater improvement be
| seen. Young Ting, in charge of that
| department, reported early Monday
morning that every pen had been fill
ed and he had applications for still
more exhibit space than he has a
vailable. He is put to it to know
what to do with the later entries. In
| rabbits, too, there are more than
| ever before and the poultry show
| is claimed TO be the largest ever seen
| in Hawaii There will be no dog
show since there are still occasional
reports of the disease which ravaged
dogdom so severely last winter.
The school exhibit is being put in
place, Supervising Principal Wells
said yesterday, and is far more com
prehensive than ever before. There
are to be added six cash awards in
the prizes for such exhibits, $5 in
gold to go to the second best exhibit
in each of the six classes.
In the floral department Thursday
will feature cut flowers and Friday
the lei competition will be decided.
Fresh cut blooms will be shown
both days and on Saturday it will be
an hibiscus show.
| There still remains much to be
done but the management says it will
have been all completed when the
opening hour is here.
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TARIFF EXTENSION