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Show MeTomorrow The Royal Melbourne Show 17-26 September 1987 • This year at the Show you can make money as well as spend it! Check the map and come and meet "Captain Comalco". He'll give you your free collection bag. And then while you're enjoying the fun of the Show, you can be collecting Comalco Boomercans and making 75(: a kilo. PRIZES TO BE WON DAILY COMALCO Let us help you to Keep Australia Beautiful 34240 Contents Welcome to this year's Show Me Tomorrow 2 Adventures with Science • FarmTech '87 • Royal Melbourne Show! Show Me the Future Blue Ribbon Bloodstock 4 Farm Animal Expo • Livestock Judging Programme SEE Victoria's finest horses, cattle, sheep, goats and pigs; some of the most Show Information 6 daring aerial stunts in the world; decorated cakes that even mother couldn't 8 make; colourful Street Theatre; and even a couple of Tasmania's own What a Blast! Main Arena Attractions • Precision Speed & Thrills "devils". 11 TASTE the best of our state's avocadoes, honey, oranges, mushrooms, Get Away for the Day cheeses, and fairy floss! Sample your next holiday right here! SMELL the flowers in our horticultural display; the meadow hay in the animal Clever Hands and Fancy Fingers 12 pavilions; dinkum eucalyptus oil in the making; the tang of fresh woodchips Craft • Fashion • Cooking • Gardening • as they fly from the experts' axes. Photography HEAR the roar of high-powered motorcycles; the bleating of lambs; Especially for Kids 14 the whistle of a master to his dog; the fanfares of the brass bands and the Animal Nursery • Big M Ramp Thrash • Clowns foot-tapping sounds of folk and country music; and the boom of "aliens 16 landing" in a shower of fireworks. See...Smell...Touch...Taste... Victoria's Top Primary Produce TOUCH fleece off the sheep's back; those big bulls'"meaty' rumps; the curve of a Clydesdale's neck; a fluffy chicken - or even a llama! Main Arena Program 18-26 Showgrounds Map Centre Pages And come with us today and we'll SHOW YOU TOMORROW! Step Back in Time 27 Whether science is a mystery or a marvel, children and adults alike will enjoy Hand-Milking Championship • Pioneer Crafts our informative and fun journeys into the future - from "walking in Outer 28 Space" and "breaking the sound barrier" with the CSIRO, to "flying your own That's Entertainment plane" and seeing the latest in laser technology at the Victorian Street Theatre Programme Government Display. Sounds Like... 30 Top Musical Acts • Arnotts Main Stage, AMP Lawn And farmers in particular will want to see the RASV's own special FarmTech '87 exhibition, which presents a rare opportunity to view a comprehensive Man's Best Friends 32 range of farm computer systems and encourages visitors to explore their Dog and Cat Judging Programmes relative merits. Kingdom of the Horse 34 Horse Events and Programme Iron Men 36 Woodchop Programme • Shearing & more 3UZ Farm Sunday 38 A Big Carnival of Country Fun • Tractor Pull The Force is With You 40 Australian Army • Victoria Police Exhibitions Show Dates and Times Thursday September 17 9.00am to 6.00pm (No night show) Friday September 18 9.00am to 10.00pm Saturday September 19 9.00am to 10.00pm Show MeTomorrow Sunday September 20 9.00am to 9.00pm Monday September 21 9.00am to 10.00pm Tuesday September 22 9.00am to 10.00pm Wednesday September 23 9.00am to 10.00pm Official Thursday September 24 9.00am to 10.00pm H.E. Dr. Davis McCaughey A.C. (Show Day) Governor of Victoria Friday September 25 9.00am to 10.00pm Opening Saturday September 26 9.00am to 10.00pm Times and events listed in this official Showgulde are The Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria extends a warm welcome to His subject to change without prior notification. Excellency Dr. Davis McCaughey, Governor of Victoria, who will officially open the Royal Melbourne Show on Saturday, September 19 at 2.30pm. In the colourful ceremony, members of the Royal Australian Air Force will Acknowledgements provide the guard, and visitors will hear the music of the RAAF Central Band, Production & Sales; Mark Avery Pty. Ltd.; Laverton, under the direction of Squadron Leader Mike Butcher. Mark Avery, Executive Director; Following the opening Ceremony, the Governor, his wife Mrs. McCaughey Advance Enquiries for 1988 Programme and other members of the official party will view the Grand Parade from the Telephone (03) 328 4502 Main Arena dais. Show Me Tomorrow 1 Show Me Tomorrow... Would you like to take a look into the future? The CSIRO can't tell you if the partner of your dreams is the Boy Next Door, but this fun and informative exhibition at the P.B. Ronald Pavilion will reveal that science is an adventure within the reach of everyone. Likewise, our Governments claim to know a lot about the economy, but they can't predict our Tattslotto numbers! Instead, find out the future directions and projects of the various departments at the action-packed Show Me the Future display at the Victorian Government's Expo Centre. CSIRO AUSTRALIA The CSIRO's Adventures with Science Then take a walk through the sound and Adventures display in the P.B. Ronald Pavilion gives picture shows to view the awesome beauty children and adults the chance to stand in of the universe as seen through the latest with Science the scientist's shoes. Two whole floors of this telescope and our own Earth through the exciting "science shoW will entertain, "eyes" of a satellite. Finally put your eye to an arouse your curiosity, and provide a imaginary microscope for a close-up look Science isn't just a little person with glasses magical insight into this sometimes at our own living cells, the wings of a moth or stooped over a smoking test tube in a mysterious world. the sting of an ant. dusty basement laboratory! These days Start off with the "hands on" exhibits Do you feel like a sit down to absorb all of we hear and see science all around us. (theyre "minds on" too). Some of these this? Computers, communications satellites, come from the popular Experilearn section Eight times a day, TV personality Deane digital sounds, lasers, radar, video games, at the Museum of Victoria; others will be Hutton will present 'The Curiosity Show" weather forecasting (well perhaps there's given to the Museum after the Show. for children from 8 to 80. In between these room for Improvement there...), medical Listen carefully to the whispering dishes or fun performances, you can see films research, even microwave ovens - answer back into the echo tube, illustrating how CSIRO works to better the science is part of our lives. then "break the sound barrier". lives of all Australians. Are you Interested in livestock performance recording, landforming, or having access to MMIONOOMMIUMMEMEMMEMME MEMMEMMEMEMME MSOMMEMMEMMEMIOMMOMOMM MEMMEMMEMMINI a broader range of information through MMEMMEMMEMMEMEMMEMMEM MMEMMEMMIIMMO MMEMEMMEMEMMINIMMEMMOM IIMMEMMOMMOIMM systems such as Videotex, Farmlink, MMOMINIMINIMMOMMEMEMMEM MOMOMMMEMMEM and CALM? MEMMEMEMMEMOMMEMMEMM MEMMOMMEMMME =MEMO! 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EMMEN =Urn MEM Theyre not here primarily to sell you something - but to offer knowledgeable When it comes to choosing a tractor, More and more farmers are realising that and independent advice. We've also the average farmer is a pretty clued-up farm computers can be a boon to efficient arranged some free Introductory workshops tyre-kicker. With knowledge accumulated management (and increased productivity) at 7.00pm on Monday 21, Tuesday 22, over many years of practical experience, at this difficult time when just an extra dollar and Wednesday 23 September. he can evaluate the features and the per hectare can make a lot of difference to We don't want you to "kick our computers" - faults, the value for money and the the bank balance at the end of the year. but we would Ilke you to feel on more capability of a certain model to perform Perhaps you (or your accountant) simply familiar terms after a visit to this very special the Job in mind. want to streamline or enlarge you farm exhibition. You will find it in the old "Carverr But what about choosing a farm financial records; or would like to make at the corner of Plummer and Degraves computer? more use of farm or enterprise budgets and Streets. analyses. 2 Show Me Tomorrow Show Me the Future 4- 4i. What is our Government doing to solve today's problems and meet the many challenges of the future? You can learn first-hand from video presentations, photographic displays, computer games, puppet theatre, a "museum of the future" and staff from the various departments who will be there at the Expo Centre to answer all enquiries.