109th Methven A&P Show

Join the fun at the 109th Methven A&P Show this SAT 15 MAR. Listen to Luke Howden Breakfast this week for your chance to win tickets!

This year’s theme is “Mid Canterbury – Feeding the World”. The show is the perfect chance to reconnect with friends and family in a fun filled environment. It’s a day full of wholesome entertainment and activities. So much to see and do, including the shearing, woodchopping, highland dancing, sheep dog trials with Collie Club and equestrian.

Methven Lions Club members will be running their Top Team event for primary school children in years 5 to 8.

Methven Vintage Club will have static machinery and moving displays among a heap of trade sites. Check out how members of the Methven A&P committee will face creating a vegetable sculpture in their annual committee challenge. 30 of them involved!

Heaps of free entertainment for the kids including a colouring sheep competition, pet tent and face painting.

The art precinct returns at the far end of the showgrounds with Methven artists, such as Amanda King, Susie Millichamp, Hannah Kidd, Amelia Guild having been invited to show and talk about their works. Works will also be available for sale.

Irish band Boru will play toe tapping beats.Also catch the Methven Ute Muster for those to showcase their pride and joy in varying states.

Gift calf and gift lamb donations by farmers will go under the hammer in the auction, and presentations will be made for the annual dairy heifer competition. In the main ring the Grand Parade will be at 2pm, featuring the Ashburton Pipe Band. Then there will be a range of novelty events such as tug of war, gumboot throwing, Sheep Milking (Jones Family Farm) and sheaf tossing. Anyone, aged 18 and over, can enter and can sign up in the bar area.

The Methven A&P Show is at the Methven Showgrounds (54 Barkers Rd) from 8am to 5pm. Tickets are available on the day at the gate. Adult entry is $20 and children are free. More details on the Methven A&P Association Facebook page.