UPDATE: A mini-Royal Hobart Show to be conducted tomorrow (Wednesday) on the lawns of Parliament House in Hobart has been put back until Friday April 16 due to expected bad weather tomorrow.
The weather bureau has issued a severe weather warning, predicting damaging winds tomorrow over much of Tasmania, including Hobart. Friday’s weather is meant to be much more settled.
With tomorrow’s event cancelled for 48 hours, Friday will feature a petting zoo, bullocks, a mini-Carnival, vintage machinery, and a historical display. It will be open to the public from 10.00am to 3.00pm.
200 years of agricultural showing in Hobart will be celebrated tomorrow (Wednesday April 14) with an event on the lawns of Parliament House where the Royal Hobart Show first began.
The Show is one of Australia’s oldest annual events. With the permission of Parliament House, the day will feature a petting zoo, bullocks, a mini-Carnival, vintage machinery, and a historical display. There will also be a release of homing pigeons.
The mini-Show will be open to the public from 10.00am to 3.00pm. “It should provide children with some great holiday entertainment,” said Scott Gadd, CEO of the Royal Agricultural Society of Tasmania.
“The occasion will be a chance to acknowledge our debt to all those who maintained and built the Show over the last 200 years,” said Gadd.
“Most of them were volunteers, and that remains the case today – a striking example over two centuries of the people of the bush and the townies in Hobart who thought it important enough to come together and organise a showcase of the best that Tasmania has to offer the world.”
“While the economic focus in modern times moves to hi-tech and service industries, the fact remains that a successful and vibrant agricultural sector, and the food it produces, are the bedrock of everything else our community does,” said Gadd.
“Without farming, cities simply can’t exist.”
Following the announcement of state government support for the redevelopment of the Showground, the 2021 Show will occur as normal at the Showground, Covid-19 allowing. However, the 2022 Show may need to find a new, temporary home.
