MELBOURNE EXHIBITION AWARDS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 978, 14 January 1881, Page 2

MELBOURNE EXHIBITION AWARDS.

The following belong to New Zealand . First prize : Four p : eces of kauri timber, Hukianga Saw Mills Company. Second prizes ; Specimens of Australian and New Ziabind timber, showing the action of the teredo navalis, and specimens of j irrah and tot ira timbers. Auckland Harbor Board ; collection of timber showing the results of experiments for determinin'’ its strength. Colonial Museum, Wellington; timber of Canterbury and Westland, Professor Julios von Haast, Canterbury Museum ; eight specimens of native oramental woods, A F Halcombe, Fielding, Wellington ; two planks of rimu (pobshel), John Hornby. Mount Pleasant Mills, Pictnn ; llvesnecim-ns of kauri timber, New Zealand Commissioners, Wellington Tli'rd priz -s Thirty-nno samples of polishel aoil timbers, grown in New Zealand chiefly in ’he neighborhood of Dnned:n Robert Gu'brie, Dunedin; specimens of large kauritimbe -grown inNew Zealand, 0. Hold-hip, AU'klaid ; sixteen varieties of or.ime.ot.il timbers from N w Zealand forests, Wi'liam Nmi-ie, cabinet-maker. Auckland ; specimen of native timber of Otago, and p irtion of a totara log, worked with stone adzas from a Maori’s wbare at Shag River, Otago Museum. Dunenin ; sn-cimens of South! md timbers, II and A. Tapper. Inverc rgill ; Taranaki iron-sand, in its various stages of manufacture, E. M. Smith. N-w P lym m'b. Fourth prizes : Sample of boanl of knbikitea, Bagoal Bros.. Thames; polished and named sample of New Z alan 1 woods, W. N Blair, enginem -in chief South Island, Dunedin ; two slabs of kauri pine, Dr Logan, Cunobeli, Auckland, and Cntning, Hokitika ; black totara wood, suitable for veneering cabinet work. John George Denne, Nelson ; pla’dc of yellow pine timber. John Fletcher, Pakiwa. Collingwoo 1, Nelson ; specimen of New Zealand wood, polished on face, rough at back, J. C. George, Taranaki ; samples of birch and totara, J. W. Robertson and Co., Queenstown, Otago ; veneers of co’onial woods, Robert Stone, Thames ; twenty specimens of New Zealand timbers and bark for tanning, Wielding and Ball, Waipnkurau, Nanier. Fifth p'dsos : section of stump flowering fuchsia *rce, 55in in circumference. John Beckenham, Nelson ; rough piece of kauri timber, showing the natural formation of kauri gum, Edward Rases, Eden Crescent, Auckland, and M ‘Connell, Hokitika>