A Milestone for the Australian Koi Hobby in New South Wales:The Sydney Koi Show 2019

摘要

The last couple of years, both the Koi Society of Australia (KSA) and the Australian Koi Association (AKA) have been struggling with falling numbers of exhibitors at the two major shows traditionally staged in Sydney. Added to that, the KSA show siteis not ideal, particularly in that the site managers never allow the Show set up on the Saturday before 7:30PM that evening - very difficult for everyone involved. With an early start on Sunday catching koi and taking them to the show, a late evening hauling bins around and setting up everything else involved is the last thing anyone wanted. After the shows last year, Graham Fameli approached the majority of hobbyists involved with either event with the proposal that the way forward for the future was to combine our efforts into staging a single show for New South Wales. Most people (even the few sceptics) agreed that it was at least worth a trial year, so in June / July last year a small committee was set up to begin planning what was hoped to be something really special for 2019. Members were Richard Power, Graham Fameli, Mark Robinson, John Zammit, Martin Rocliffe, Paul Miglionico, Richard Davis & Ian Andrews.