From the Archives - New Handicraft Classes - 1953

The Show Committee would like to call the attention of all the handicraft workers in the district to the new classes appearing in the 1953 Show Schedule. These include two classes for basketry. Class 21, which should read in the schedule "To be made from cane"; and class 22, which can be made from any material, and in which it is hoped to see some good workmanship using our local grasses or similar subjects.

There are classes for hand made flowers this year, and another new class is for the most useful article made from sugarbags.

Another unusual class is for the best toy made from any material other than wood. This covers quite a wide fields and should produce some good entries, as also should the class for the best dressed doll.

Floor rugs this year can be of either wool or rag scraps, and it is hoped that some of the C.W.A. members will have rugs they would like to exhibit. Originality of design will count in this class.

If the number warrants it the Committee hopes to improve the staging of these sections next year, but the support of a large number of entrants is necessary before anything much can be done inside the pavillion.

This district has dozens of clever women workers and a Show such as the forthcoming one gives them an oppurtunity of showing just what can be done, and also of exchanging ideas with other exhibitors.

Schedules are obtainable at most business houses or from the Secretary's office, and the stewards in the various sections will willingly give advice to intending entrants.

Source: The Stanthorpe Border Post and Stannnum Miner - Friday, January 16, 1953.