FINE EXHIBITS

Hokitika Guardian, 27 October 1931, Page 3

FINE EXHIBITS

NEW ZEALAND DISPLAY AT WINNIPEG. MAORI CRAFTS FEATURED. Arts and crafts of the Maori people were the ch.el' features of a New Zealand .display at the recent Canadi ■. National j'-xliibition at Winnipeg, in the exii.u.L were valuable c .r.iUgs, niodeni and a.-.cieiit articles ol liattxe wear such as ..oi\,»vais and piupiu.s, and pries less greenstone implements ol Ma.u'i 'warfare. _ The central feature was a beautifully carved facade of a Maori whare with a life-size cut-out ot a Maori chief at the doorway. The educative and colourful display of New Ze; land’s tourist and sporting arranged under the-,direc-tion of th_> New Zealand Trade Commissioner for Canada, Mr J. W. Collins, was located in the Dominion Government Building near the main entrance of the exhibition. Many of the valuable Maori articles exhibited were lent to the display through the courtesy of the curator of the Ontario Government Museum, Professor Correlli. Several of tip* Maori curved vertical posts horizontal slabs that "’ere used also came from that museum, and other material used came from tile High Commissioner for New Zealand in London, from Toronto and from tii e Publicity Department in. Wellington. It was an attractive Maori section, a feature of which was the transparencies running the full length of the exhibit.

Dominion’s Wild Life. ■ Sporting attractions were featured in a large map of New Zealand measuring nine feet by live feet. . Big game hunters lingered at the views of speci. ’mens of the Dominion’s wild life. The photographs of a swordfish weighing D7l lh. j and rainbow and brown trout | weighing up to 201 b., made a special appeal to the sportsmen of a country which also boasts sporting fish. The exhibition opened on August 2*B and concluded on September 12, during which time nearly 2,000,000 people visited it. Earl Jellicoe. an ex-Go-vernor-General of th e Dominion,'opened tlie exhibition. Distinguished Visitors. After the official luncheon following the opening Earl Jellicoe, Lady Jellicoe, the president of the exhibition, Mr Sam Harris, the acting LieutenantGovernor of Ontario. Sir William Mulock. the British High Commissioner, Sir William Clark, and several other distinguished guests visited the New Zealand court. On a map 0 f the Dominion Earl Jellicoe placed an indicator showing his favourite fishing grouiid in the Tonga riro River and his favourite deershooting afrea at the head of Lake Wanaka. Earl Jellicoe, the vice-pre-sident of the Canadian Pacific Railway-, Mr Stephens, the chief of . the Canadian Steamship Service, Air Baird, and the other prominent people who visit-1 ed the exhibit, all expressed the opiu-r ion thnt it was an excellent advertisemerit for New Zealand. hile the ex- , liihition was in progress a cinematograph film depicting New Zealand s scenic charms was shown at intervals in the Ontario Motion Picture Theatre in the Ontario Government Building.