THE EXHIBITION DAY-BY DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81890, 19 November 1906, Page 2

THE EXHIBITION DAY-BY DAY.

Per Press Association. Christchurch, November 17. There is little to record respecting 1 (o-day s proceedings at the Exhibition. The attendance has been good, and people appear 10 be interesting ihem-elves to a greater extent in detailed examination of the exhibits. The latest additions are the sea lion, seals [ and penguins which are now located t" an enclosure of the lake, and the I lijians, who arrived yesterday. The latter are a splendid body of men,' and attracted attention wherever thev , B°-

The New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association's 1907 championship is to bo held in the Exhibition sports •-'ncJosure.

. Slnc , e th ° opening of the Exhibition, the telegraph office here has had a heavy dram upon it. Carnival week came- on top of the opening, and the staff and wires were tested '-> their utmost capacity. During •ho busiest days, it was sometimes difficult to get near the public counter, there being a row of eager persons three deep eager to hand in messages. At the Exhibition, a like tax upon the resources of the te'e-fi-raph staff and office has been experienced, but excellent organisation resulted 111 the rapid despatch of messages, and very little delay was occasioned. These officers in charge have done everything in their power to facilitate the despatch of Press messages. A large number of the best operators, picked from all parts ci the colony, were sent to Christchurch, and the quadruplex system has been m full operation between this eily and the North, Christchurch, November 18. The attendance at the Exhibition yesterday was 14,803.

THE TARANAKI COURT,

The following i.s an extract from a letter received by a New Plymouth resident from a Taranaki visitor to the International Exhibition-—"I must tell you candidly I am much disappointed with the Taranaki Court \\c could not obtain guide books on the first day of our visit, and we on quired of at 'least Isix officials for the whereabouts of the Taranaki Court, but not one of them all bad tho re : motest idea, or even that there was such a place in the Exhibition. One boy said, "1 think you will find it near the Westport coal show; a-1 thote son of places arc together." Later on we found it quite by accident —a little, narrow room, with really nothing striking about it. It might be a surveyor's or a 'land agent's den. With capital maps of the district, several ordinary-sized photographs of Mount Egmont, a lew larg'e photos ol Patea harbor, two lists ot statistics, of the province'.s population, cattlsp etc., the last part in ,arge lettering: 'Money investments—good held lor absolutely sale investment on mortgage of hroad acres, interest 4J to 5 per cent, etc. There is a photo ot a girl miikmg a cow, wlucii is sup posed to represent the dairy industry, and a picture of one solitary sheep which may be meant to represent the province or subscribers to the Taranaki Court fund. On the floor are tour native spears and two 'large stuffed fish, What the fish are, 01 what their relation to the spears is, would puzzle a Philadelphian piscatoruhst. \\'o sat there tor fu'ly lialf an hour. There was no one in viiarge, which did not matter in the icast, for amongst the thousands who passed up and down, not one of them at all noticed the Taranaki Court. Where is your btttUer and oil, the derricks, and 'E.M.-'s- ironsand? fhe Butterworth Maori collection iooks very well, but it is quite apart irom the Taranaki Court."

Probably the writer of the above idler expected to find a court on lines as ambitious as Canada, and was disappointed. Nevertheless, the letter seives to substantiate, our allegations oj a few days ago regarding iho inadequacy of rcprescmatijn. Tlic public will be pleased to know that within a few days many of Hie pre sent shortcomings are to bo remedied, and the display brought more imo keeping- with the importance of the province. The chairman of the provincial committee is hustling around, and expects to procure a Dumber of samples of oil, With the product of the analysis, from the" Taranaki Pe a oleum Co. H c has also secured from Mr E. M. Smith, M.H.R., his valuable collection of steel and manulacltired aniens from Taranaki iron sand, and ilie.-c are to be > CIU forward as soon as possible.