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A second year with no show on Show Day in Canterbury

17:55 pm on 12 November 2021

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The Canterbury Anniversary Day public holiday is known as Show Day in region, the day country comes to town. But not today.

For the second time since World War Two there was no A and P show on in Christchurch today. As our reporter, Rachel Graham found out, while the show grounds were certainly very different from normal, they were far from quiet.