DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 413, 23 October 1889, Page 5

DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.

By the next stenmer for the South the Auckland Kauri Timber' Company despatch a number of very artistic specimens of their daily manufacture in turnery and wood ware, for exhibition at the forthcoming Dunedin Exhibition. The exhibits are simply articles selected from those of every -day turn-out in the Company's mills in Customs-streeD, and not specially manufactured specimens sent merely for display. The articles to be sent, which are now on view at the Company's factory, comprise splendid specimens of carved and plain woodwork — doors, trusses, boards, etc., and altogether will make a very handsome show in the Auckland Court. They are entirely manufactured out of kauri, and will be interesting to Southern•ers as showing to what manifold uses this j wood can be turned. Amongst the articles of manufacture to be despatched are live very finelytinished mantelpieces, with carved trusses and bases, and circular corners, got up as excellent imitations of heavy marble. These form in themselves a very handsome exhibit. Then come ten doors very carefully constructed and polished two ot which have very handsome embossed glass fronts, with stained margins and rosette corners. The other of the exhibits include four margin light sashes, and two light sashes, and two specimen boards 24 inches and 21 inches wide, yery finely and smoothly finished . One very striking exhibit is a splendid kauri plank 12 feet in length, 5 feet 6, inches wideband 2 inches thick, cut out of one single .log. A nnmber of very handsome trusses, splendidly finished in every respect, are-on^view, and aico some good- specimens of the average quality of tongued, grooved, and Vjointed lining boards turned out by the Company. Handsomely carved table legs and newels of all patterns are included in the exhibits, and in addition a number of different sized broom handles for corn brooms. In order to show the varied scope of the Company's business it may be mentioned that every week, they turn out some 5,000 of these broom -handles, r half of which are absorbed in local broom manufactories. The Kauri Company are also sending to Dunedin a fine wooden stand and pyramid, | presented to the Mining Association, which consists ot an amphitheatre, or octoganshaped stand, supporting a pyramid with an apex top. The pyramid, which ia seven feet high by five feet wide, square at -the base and tour feet a^ the top, is to be gilded to represent the colony's gold returns up to the present time. The remainder of the stand will be utilised for jars containing mineral and ore exhibits. The exhibits will be on view to - morrow to the public, under the care of the courteous, mill manager and factory foreman, Messrs Good and T. H. White.