THE EXHIBITION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1797, 30 June 1906, Page 2

THE EXHIBITION.

(Per Press Asnooiatioii.) Christohurob, last nighl

The Government has approved of the appointment of Dr. Bradshaw, cf Christchurch, as organist to the New Zaaland International Exhibition, Dc. Bradshaw will have charge of the organ, and will be responsible for its oare. The remuneration arranged is 100 guineas, and Dr. Bradshaw has agreed, in addition to the care of the organ, to give six recitals during the currenoy of the Exhibition. An informal application has bsen received for 300 equate feet of spsoe for the purpose of arranging a Scottish stall to oontain novelties from Scotland, as well as the handwork ol Scats at Home. Mr William Hardie, of Messrs Hardie and Poole’s famous Sootch model of a working colliery, has oabled to theEx'cative Commissioner applying for space within the grounds on whioh to ereot his model colliery. With a view to making the most of the electric pneumatic organ, which is being erected in the Exhibition Concert Hall at a cost of £4OOO, instructions have been oabled to Mr Donne, who is at present in Bydoey, to open negotiations with tho principal organists in the Commonwealth cities with »he objeot of arranging for a series of organ reoitals during the progress of the Exhibition.

Negotiations are in progress for suitable space for the well-known Read 9 collection of pictures which at present hang in the Auokland Art Gallery. It is quite impossible to find accommodation for these pictures in ilio Exhibition A r t Gallery, but an arrangement may bo made and a piece found to acoommodate them.