THE EXHIBITION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1927, 8 November 1906, Page 3

THE EXHIBITION.

THE MACHINERY EXHIBITS,

PRESS ASSOCIATION Christchurch, iastiigh I ’. The attendance at the Exhibition sbis morning was limited, but increased in the afternoon. The Agricultural Show and other attractions helped to reduoi the usual cumber of visitore. Tho Premier and L idy Ward and Hon?. McGowan Bnd Fowlds visiied the South Australian court to-day. Tney were roofed by the Commissioner, Mr Scott, who presented Lady Ward with a specimen of a small tortoise found in the Northern territory, _ The machinery ball in Ihe Exhibition has the advantage of beiDg looated whom it ciDnot be missed, for it abut 3 on the northernmost extremity of the main corridor, and a? everyone passes along this during the diurnal inspscsion, tho machinery has necessarily a large audience. Tho whirr and buzz of active meebanhm attracts tbo attention of the curious but otherwise uninterested spectator, though there is usually a large gathering of persons engaged in industrial pursuits who are eager to discover anything dow in the way of mechanism, The machinery exhibit comprises four great classes, gas engines, electrical maobinery, mofcoc ci*9, and machinery tools. Sieam engines are few 'and far between, and the large quantities of manufactured praduois that are displayed in tho ball tra eoarcoly within the provinoo of tho sedan. , The railway aeohoD, which is looatod W itbin the bail, is eo largo and so distinct that it oan bo regarded as external to the general display. Among the prime movers in use g’S engines easily take the lead. The iniernal combustion engine ia üb'qul tons. Nex>, but a very bad second among generators of power, are the quaint hot air engines. Theaa strange ointrivanoes arc bulky for their power, but simple in principle, and in foot oarry on their staggering gait untiringly, and attract endless aitmtion by their peculiar eppeararc.’. . . ..

Toe oleo'riojl machinery is wmer in i.s disHibaticn than anything else in the machinery hail. Tho principal exhibits of okc : rical machinery are two sets U3ed m oonneolion with tbo lighting of tho Exhibition, comprising eogines and dynamos, oecrr eating about 250 horse power. Both lbesa BOts ate intended for use at Tirnaru, I whioh is shoitiy to bo lighted with cleoiricity by the mun c’pality. The motor otrf m .ke a sp ondid show. Thire ato three fine stands of oars, rang- | inc from Bmall runabouts to heavy tour-i-g oate. They are all of the best quality, for the idea is not to show chaop machines, I bus cood onos.

Tbets is ft groat variety in motor cycles I shown, and some of these “read begs approach very nearly to graoefulnes?. The machine tools shown are of great variety, and ato intensely prosaic. Their uncompromising black finish announces | their usefulness, a".d iheir build announces their purposes. Taere are lathes,_ bandsaws, drills, planing machines, and riveters, and smaller fry innumorablo, but generally speaking they ato ugly ond much too in

8 Li U U lA' A-i J ** , , 1 sorutable for tho average speoiator. Tho mißoelhnoous class is too big to dfsorita. Bome oomplste refrigeratng plates aro of considerable interest-, an:tbe'6 are generally in going order. Tho New Zealand railway section, while porsooing vasf importance, ia not only showing what can now bo dene m the colony in too matter of supplying cur own railway exhibiiion, but also giving a pointer os to what may bs achieved in She near future, is ooe which cannot bo popularly described. The eyo of the layman viewing the splendid exhibits may take io a general way tho excellence of the wo k displayed, tut only the expert nan fully appreciate it. To describe it { cr tbo edification of the latter would require columns of type, and the former could not bo enlightened by any mere description, suffice it to say that the exhibits show a development in our engineerin'* skill and appliances which is quite in keeping with tho progressiveness of tin industrial operations ,of the colony. Ii

I rolling stock amt railway appliances placed on view demonstrated that it' New Zealand is not yet ipiite independent, of other countries in the matter of manufacturing all the gear if requires for its working railways, it is within measurable distance of being so, for at the present time the larger class of locomotives are being manufactured in the Colonial .Railway Workshops with signal success as is shown by the exhibits.

THE MANAGEMENT,

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE COMMISSIONERS PRESS ASSOCIATION Christchurch, hist night. A Cabinet meeting wan held this afternoon at the Exhibition buildings respecting tho differences which huvo aiisnn boStvpcn Mr Munro, the Chief Extoulivo Commissioner, find bis colleagues. It was expected that a definite d vision would have boon arrived at, but I hsvo just noon the Premier, who states that no decision has boon como to so far. Ho would not mako any further atnteuioni. He is visiting the Exhibition ag tin to night.