THE EXHIBITION.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 601, 18 April 1882, Page 2

THE EXHIBITION.

The attendance at the Exhibition on Saturday, says the Lyttclton Times, was greater than on any other occasion since the opening day, upwards of 6000 people having been admitted. The receipts for the week amounted to £350 more than those of the first week of the Adelaide Exhibition.

The following figures will give some idea of the magnitude of the work of fitting up the Exhibition Building with gas. To get the supply into the building necessitated the laying of 858 yds of 4in and 3in mains, and within the building is distributed no less than a mi!e and a half of gas pipe, in size from 2in down to iin, supplying G22 burners, 3 gaa engines, 8 gas stoves, 12 ordinary lamps, and 5 large octagon lamps outside. The work of supplying the building with gas fittings is by far the largest undertaking of the kind in New Zealand, and the manner in which tiie work has been carried out reflects the greatest credit on the Gas Company's Inspector, Mr James Hutchison, who designed and superintendei the whole work, and successfully completed it in the short space of four weeks, without a single escape being discovered when the gas was turned on in the building.