Witwatersrand Agricultural Society Programme 1935

Witwatersrand Agricultural Society Annual Show 1935, Official catalogue and Programme, 286 pages, illustrated, 14 cms x 21 cms, condition: very good.

The Show was first held at the Old Wanderers cricket ground in November 1894 by the Witwatersrand Agricultural Society, a society that had formed in March of the same year. The second show was opened by Paul Kruger on 13 March 1895, at a venue called Milner Park, which is today the site of the University of the Witwatersrand's West Campus It was held again in 1896 and reestablished subsequent to the end of the Anglo Boer War, in 1907. In 1936, the Rand Show was called the Empire Exhibition.