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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 674, 29 December 1882, Page 3

Akaroa Exhibition AKAROA HORTICUTURAL, INDUSTRIAL, A PASTORAL EXHIBITION, TO BE HELD IN THE ODDFELLOWS' HALL. AKAROA, On JANUARY Ist ami 2nd, 1883. THK! Committee desire to call the attention of the public to the fact that the forthcoming Exhibition will be carried out in a much more comprehen sive manner than its predecessors. ' In the HORTICULTURAL division the awards have been divided into two classes, an open and amateur class, so that the non-professional residents will not have to compete against gardeners or the Chinese. The prizes offered in this division will be (in luding private awards) over £25. The INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION is also exciting greater interest this year. The Schoolmasters' Association have offered" five special prizes, and strong efforts are being made in the schools.to carry off the palm. The objects of ar will also be seen to a much greater advantage in the Oddfellows' Hall. The AGRICULTURAL and PASTORAL division is under the auspices of the Farmers' Club, who offer a handsome and varied list ot prizes for produce, implements, etc. The attention of farmers is specially called to the endeavors to encourage the manufacture of implements suitable for working our hilly country. The Society has issued two classes of tickets for purchase, to which they wish specially to call the attention of the public. The first costs 10s, and gives the holder a right to free entrance to the Exhibition during the two days, and also to the exemption from entry fees, except for special prizes. A further privilege will be free admittance to a PROMENADE CONCERT with which the Exhibition will close, on the evening of January 2nd. The other tickets are 5s each, and are intended for those who desire to encourage the Society by a small donation, The following Special Prizes have been offered, and more are invited :— £3 3s for the best treatise on stock for dairy purposes, and how to produce, them, taking rearing, feeding, breeding, and causes (if any) through climatic influences, etc., between New Zealand and Great Britain, the treatise to be the property of the Farmers' Club; offered Mr Henry Piper. 15s for the winner" of the greatest number of prizes in the Agricultural and Pastoral exhibits; given by Mr W. Barnett. 9s for best cheese exhibited in the show; given by Mr W. Barnett. 10s 6d for the best curd shovel; offered by Mr George Checkley. 10s 6d for the best 12 mulberry leaves (Morus alba); offered by Mr H. C. Jacobson. 10s for the best collection of peas, named varieties ; given by Mr Hawthorne. 7s 6d for the best box of flowers for window-sill; given by Mr E. Lee. 10s for the winner of the gieateat number of prizes in the vegetable classes ; given by Mr R. Newton. For the best kept exercise books in Standards 2, 3, 4, 5. and 6, to children attending the Government schools of the Peninsula. The work to extend over a period of not less than three months, and to be certified to by teacher. The conditions and the amounts of the prizes to be settled at the next monthlj' meeting or the Association. Given by the Banks Peninsula Teachers 1 Association. The schedules, with a full list of the prizes offered, can be obtained of any member of Committee, of the Hon, Secretary, at the Mail Office, or at any store in Akaroa. Entrance fees for all exhibits, except in the Industrial elaeees, which are free, 6d per exhibit. Times of closing for entries and other intelligence in future advertisements. STEPHEN WATKINS, Hon. Sec. Tender* "WANTED. rpENDERS for Carting 150 Cords _l. of Firewood (more or less) from the Kaik. F. NARBEY, Jun. Government Advertisement* NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS (Christchurch Section). CHEAP FARES TO DUNEDIN, INVERCARGILL, AND THE LAKES, FOR CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS. RETURN FARES. Prom Christchurch and Ashburton. . To Ist Class, 2nd Class. DUNEDIN ... 30s 20s INVERCARGILL. 50s 35s KINGSTON, FOR THE LAKES... 60s 40s Tickets at the above fares will be issued for the Express Train on the 22nd, 23rd, 25th, 26th, 29th,. 80th December and Ist January, and will be available for return up to and including the Bth January. For further particulars see posters. The following arrangements as to fares generally will also be in force:— All ordinary single fare tickets issued from 21st December to 2nd January will be available for return up to and including the Bth January. FREDK. BACK, Traffic Manager. District Traffic Manager's Office, Christchurch, December 13th, 1882.