The Malanda Show Society with the Dairy Farmers factory is proud to bring to you a true family orientated agricultural show.
Three days of non-stop entertainment is scheduled featuring displays and exhibits that include in the centre ring: The spectacular Equestrian High Jump, Dressage events, Goat Display and the spectacular firework display.
Some of the exhibits around the grounds outside the centre ring are: the Dairy and Beef Cattle Exhibits, Poultry, Goat Display, Animal Nursery and Woodchops.
Inside The Pavilion, there are the highest quality displays of Fine Art, Culinary Art, Needlework, Quilting, Horticulture, Flowers and Art & Craft in the north Queensland region.
Malanda Show 2020 Program Coming Soon!
Along with the ever popular Side-Show Alley plus the Booths, Tents and Vans selling all things wonderful, this will once again be a truly memorable Malanda Show!
– Celebrating 103 Years of the Malanda Show –
The Cairns Post of Thursday 6 November 1919 reported a successful first day for the Malanda Show “considering the weather conditions” which were warm and slightly cloudy. The dust on the new grounds was said to be “troublesome” and the grounds “somewhat rough, and the improvements a little crude”.
The Show was opened by the Hon F.W. Bamford MHR, who complimented the committee on their new ground. There were said to be about 900 on the grounds and a couple of accidents were reported, with both Mr R Crocker and Mr P English being severely kicked by horses led through the crowd. Neither produced serious results, Mr English attended on the second day on crutches. The cattle were judged by Mr A Pickles a leading breeder from Wondai and the horses by Mr E.C. Earl.
The second day of the show saw an attendance of at least 1500 people, and storm clouds which started with light showers in the morning which increased by 2 o’clock to heavy rain. By 4 in the afternoon the show grounds had to be abandoned for better shelter in the town. The inaugural camp drafting contest had to be abandoned before it was finished satisfactorily.
The Townsville Daily Bulletin of the 17th November, 1919 gave a description of the new grounds – “The situation is an ideal one, being right in the centre of the township and within one hundred yards of the railway station. The beautiful Malanda Creek forms one boundary from which the surface rises gradually to the main road which forms another boundary. About two hundred yards away the picturesque waterfalls are situated, the soothing music of the falling waters being distinctly audible from the show grounds.”
With the success of the 1919 Show providing a profit of nearly £300, the committee set to work on providing more permanent structures for the 1920 show. The main object was to erect a substantial grandstand. By the time of the show, on the 27th and 28th October 1920, an “up-to-date” grandstand, while not quite complete, was, according to the Cairns Post of 2nd November, “very useful to provide seating for many ladies and children as well as giving a splendid viewpoint from which the proceedings could be watched with advantage.”
