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THE EXHIBITION DAY BY DAY.

Per Press Association. Chrisicinirc.i, November if). Monday is die off day at tin- Exhibition, ,ind t wluy everything was very fjuii'., iiml the visituis duiing tiie morning were lowest in the vasi area of the building" and the expensive grounds outside, and were no. appreciable, but the attendance was better in tlie afternoon, and became liberally large during the evening, when the local season ticket-holders aic picsent in large numbers. The funeral ol die Hon. A. Pitt had a depressing effect during- the day, for the afternojn "concert was abandoned, the flags were furled, with the exception of two lowered a> half-mast, and for three-quarters of an hour, while the cotege was on its way from the cemetery to the railway station, the luins.iles were stopped and the entrance doors closed. The attendance during the day . and evening totalled 8609, which . brings the total attendance to date to 258,809.

THE TARANAKI COURT, Mr W. G. Malone, Chairman of the Taranaki Representation Committee, writes: The committee has plenty to do without conducting a newspaper corespondenee with captious critics who go out of their way to be nasty, but it may as well be put on iccord what the scheme of represen-

ation is. Before doing so, I wish to point out that the person whom I will hereafter refer to as tho "captious critic," from whose letter you 'publish an extract in your Monday's issue, may or may not be a judge on the subject, but 1 do know this, that some one hundred or more of Taranaki's loading business men had the scheme placed before them, and they judged it to be the best and only feasible one. Your readers will please ivar in mind that

(1) The Exhibition is not an agricultural and pastoral or dairy show; (2) Taranaki is at present only an agricultural, pastoral and dairy dis--1.1 ict;

(3) The representation funds arc very limited. So it is clear that ihe only practical form of representation is what may be termed a literary one. The committee's approved scnome is a literary one, maps and pictures and 95,000 publications, presented, 1 venture to say, in the best possible form. The critic, whose letter in part you publish, evidently thinks that ali that is wanting in our cuurt is butter, oil, hemp, and ironsand. Well, butter in hot weather soon melts and goes rancid, and can in any case be seen fresh in every grocer's shop the world over. Oil and ironsand arc not yet Taranaki's commercial products, but as part of ■ lie approved scheme, samples of peroleum and its products, and ironsand, even, were to bo and will be shown as soon as possible. The captious critic is evidently not exact in lis statements for he says, referring to the lists of statistics, "the last part in large lettering," theinferencebeing .hat the rest of the letiering is not large. Now, as a fact,the whole of the lettering is on the same scale, l'hat inexactitude, to give it no harsher term, must be wilful, and being so will condemn the author of it in the minds of your readers, I would like to know why the "captious critic," with a companion or companions, sat in the court for half an Hour if it has 110 attraction, and I would like to know, in the interests of the subscribers, at what hour he sat there. The hours of the attendant are from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., and 7 p.m. to g p.m., and if he is not present during those hours the committee will be glad to know of ii and will deal with him.

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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81891, 20 November 1906, Page 2

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THE EXHIBITION DAY BY DAY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81891, 20 November 1906, Page 2

THE EXHIBITION DAY BY DAY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81891, 20 November 1906, Page 2

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