EXHIBITION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8767, 19 March 1907, Page 2

EXHIBITION.

Day by Qay. By Telegraph.—Fpocial Service. CmiistcntJEOu, March 18. The Exhibition was again well attended to-day. Mr Wilfred Manning was vocalist at the concert in the evening, which was well attended, and there was ft large audience also at the Orchestral Concert in the afternoon. The judging of home industries exhibits will be completed this week. The classes still remaining are Drawing, geometry, native school work, modelling, and decorative design. Pictures are now being judged. Judges’ reports in open classes for technical school pupils have been handed in to the Committee, and .awards should be available early in the week.

A sheep-yarding competition in connection with the Christchurch Dog Trial Club’s trials will be held on the Sports Ground on Monday next. Among the forty-one entries are five dogs brought over by E. McLeod, of Wilga Downs, Now _ South ♦Wales, and the meeting of these with the New Zealand cracks will lend more than ordinary interest to the trials. McLeod’s dogs have also scored heavily at Sydney competitions. At the Exhibition the contests will consist in driving sheep through two separate pairs of hurdles, one representing a gateway and the other a race, and yarding them. Mr Jaques, Government Canning Expert; will give demonstrations of fruitpreserving on Wednesday and Thursday afternoon, after which there will be a cessation till La-tor. The demonstrations will then bo renewed and given at short intervals till the close of the Exhibition. Very great interest is taken in these practical displays which often attract a crowd of a couple of hundred people, many of them armed with notebooks,

Eighty-nine Fire Brigades., including one from Coiwa, New South Wales, will .take part in the competitions on the Sports ground this week. A commencement will bo made to-morrow afternoon, three events taking place at once. . The judges and officials held a meeting tonight at which final arrangements were made. Pour engines will take part in ah illuminated water display to be hold at the side of Victoria Lake to-morrow night. A fair-sized building has been erected on the Sports ground for the fighting the flames Act of Wednesday night, in which two steam engines, two chemical engines and a motor chemical engine, will take part. The building will be set on fire between two sets of fireworks, and the engines will set to work to quell the flames as in the case of any ordinary conflagration. On Thursday evening there will be a second water display, and on Priday night a banquet will be hold in the main corridor, and the Acting-Premier will present prizes to the winners of the competitions. A trial of chemical engines will take place on Saturday morning. A large number of entries have already been received for the physical development competitions to be held in Wonderland in conjunction with the search for buried treasure on Friday, March 22nd.