Exhibition Highlights

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 185, 2 May 1940, Page 11

Exhibition Highlights

This is your last opportunity to record your siguature in the Centennial Roll of Commemoration and to obtain your Centennial Certificate of Attendance. Roll closes May 4. Situation, General Exhibits Court —next to Moa.

Three more days left! Positively your last opportunity to see the greatest collection of exquisite and priceless regalia covering 1000 years of European history. Forty-two years to acquire. The Crown Jewels in the Tower of London.

St. Moritz Ice Skaters, ‘‘Playland’s Best.” Spectacular in its presentation. Stupendous in ils setting. Daring in its execution. Thrilling to see. Fascinating to talk about.

The . rage of New York and Paris. Bezalel, 100 per cent, pure Silver Jewellery. High art. in Eastern jewellery modernized with tremendous -success. on display “New Pal” Palestine Exhibit, next Cafeteria.

See Hitler’s Horrors of Mechanized Murder. First showing in New Zealand of the German Giant Torpedo and Nazi Mine, captured in the North Sea. Playland's Premier Attraction.

Hats off to the gallant, little lady who made her first trip out of doors after two .years to make a special visit to the Exhibition to see the Little Theatre.

New Zealand Full-Face Queens are prominent among the classic stamp issues. Call today. S. Curtis and Co., General Exhibits Court.

yesterday afteroon. This was one of the primary schools demonstrations of children’s handicrafts, staged every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in the early afternoon, in the little modei schoolroom in the shadow of the giant revolving globe. It differed, however, from the majority of tire demonstratins in its subject.

Children of the Thorndon Model School, none of them more than 13, took raw wool, just as it came from the animal’s back, aud carried it through the processes of manufacture, spinning and weaving with wheel and hand-loom, to the production of finished fabric of excellent quality. Crowds of some 300 or more gathered along the railing overlooking the court to watch the little girls at their task. The schools demonstrating this week are Wadestown, which occupied the Sunken Court on Tuesday, Thorndon Model School yesterday, and Kelburn today. Government Films. Today’s programme of films in the Government Court cinema theatrette will be: 1.15, 2.15, and 3.15 p.m., “Isle of Romance,” “Maoriland Movielogue No. 8,” and “Health Activities”; 4.15 p.m., “Our Island Nation”; 6.45 and 7.30 p.m., “New Zealand Marches On” and ■•Meadow to Market”; 8.15 p.m., "Our Island Nation.” Tomorrow the first three afternoon sessions will be “Mountain Holiday” and “Maoriland Movielogue No. 9,” and at 4.15 p.m., “Our Island Nation.” The evening will be a special request night, with “Royal Mail” and “Twenty White Horses” at 6.45 and 7.30 p.m., and “Back'blocks to High Seas” and “Boundaries” at 8.15 and -9 p.m. Cookery Demonstrations.

Keen interest has been roused throughout the period of the Exhibition by the cookery demonstrations in the Wellington Gas Company’s exhibit. Here at regular intervals' daily have been given demonstrations by culinary experts, and almost without exception the attendances have been remarkable. The theatrette seats some 160 people, and usually not only are all seats taken, but almost as many spectators agaiii watch standing round the walls. At present a specialty is being made of the cooking of apples, a subject which is of particular interest to New Zealand housewives. Apple-cooking demonstrations are being given at frequent intervals during the mornings by Mrs. Edgar. Many unusual and attractive methods of using this fruit are being shown, and booklets of useful apple recipes circulated. In addition Miss Una Carter gives afternoon and evening demonstrations, at 3.30 and 7.45 p.m.. on general cooking, illustrating the ease with which gas can be used in the kitchen, rather than attempting to give instruction in cookery. Housewives' are shown how to get the best results from their gas cookers. A fascinating example of what can be done by a clever cook is the demonstrations of how all the dishes requisite for a complete dinner can be cooked simultaneously in the oven.

The annual meeting of the Wellington Ruglby Union will take place in the Exhibition Assembly Hall today, opening at 9 a.m. Tire conference of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association will continue in the banquet hall today and tomorrow,