A decision to put the show in recess for a year was made at an emergency meeting last week.

Griffith Show Society treasurer Denny Fachin (pictured with secretary Juley Jackson) said he feared the 2014 event would be the last for the city.

“I can’t see it coming back,” Mr Fachin said.

“We had a crisis meeting in January to ask the people of Griffith and surrounds if they were interested in having a show.

“We wanted new ideas, we wanted sponsors but mainly we wanted volunteers because everything nowadays costs so much money to run,” he said.

“Last year was difficult because we couldn’t find volunteers to do certain jobs so we had to pay people to do certain jobs then some of our sponsors pulled out.” Mr Fachin said he was confident after the crisis meeting the show would go on.

“We had around about 80 people there,” he said.

“It was very positive and out of that I came away and said we will have the 100^th show because you guys won’t let us down.”

The show would have been held for the 95^th time in 2015.

Mr Fachin said a number of people who expressed interest in helping keep the show alive had been contacted and asked to attend the society’s annual general meeting.

However, only about 15 people attended that meeting.

“We failed to form a committee and that just shows you the interest, that was very disappointing,” Mr Fachin said.

Secretary Juley Jackson said only four people attended the ladies annual general meeting the following day.

“We decided to have an emergency meeting, we said let’s try and form a committee. At that meeting we had about eight people there,” Mr Fachin said.

He said a motion was passed to disband the show for 12 months.

“Personally I don’t think it will ever get going again because the interest is not there,” Mr Fachin said.

Mr Fachin said he was bitterly disappointed the show would not go ahead,

“It was very emotional to say we can’t form a committee,” he said.

“It went from 80 people to 15 people down to eight people and now it’s two people, that’s Juley and I.

“You can’t run it with two people.”

Mrs Jackson said she believed the only time the show was not held was one year during the war.

She said if people wanted to see the show go ahead in 2016, they needed to attend the annual general meeting in February next year.

“If people are interested, they’ll show up to that meeting.”

Mr Fachin said gate takings for the show were about $50,000 in 2012, $40,000 in 2013 and $28,000 in 2014.

He said the committee had been disappointed by the lack of community support.

“There will definitely be no show this year,” Mr Fachin said. “We haven’t got the volunteers, we haven’t got the sponsors, we haven’t got any new ideas.”