It is only Friday morning and car after car pulls up outside the stadium at Levin AP&I Showground - and soon passengers and their goods pour out in anticipation of setting up stands to advertise a business, or a club/organisation. This is also the morning when those involved in the Home Industries section come in and set up.
An array of artwork, from decorated gumboots to knitwear, cushions and quilts as well as cakes, jams and biscuits are meticulously placed on the appropriate shelf.
Four groups of people or individuals spent the past year assembling 10 products around the theme, A celebration. Veterans in this and multiple winners are the Muhunoa East Rural Women, who have been doing court for 40 years.
They are celebrating the Queen’s Platinum jubilee, complete with Paddington Bear and jam sandwiches. Anne Jakeman and Helen Cole were among its members assembling and arranging the court.
Another court celebrates the coronation of King Charles III and Wendy Morgan chose Mother’s Day High Tea. Mother and daughter -in-law Jill and Jude are celebrating Halloween and they are first-time entrants in the courts.
