THE EXHIBITION DAY BY DAY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 19 March 1907, Page 2

THE EXHIBITION DAY BY DAY

By Telegraph.—Special Service. Chiidclmrch, .March IS. Tiie Exhibition was again well attended to-day. The judging of tiie home industries exhibits will be completed this week. The classes still remaining are drawing, geometry, native school work, modelling and decorative design. Pictures are in t ho course of being judged now. 'Jlic .judges 1 reports on lhe open classes for technical school pupils have been handed into the comimttee, and the awards should be available early in the week. The sheep yarding competition in connection with (he Christchureh do" Trial Club's trials will be held on the Spuria (Iround on Monday next. Among the forly-one entries are live dogs brought over by .Mr. A. K. McLeod. of W'ilga Downs. New South Wales, and the meeting of these wilh the New Zealand cracks will lend more than ordinary interest lo the trials. .Mr. McLeod's dogs have also scored h-nvilv at Sydney competitions. Th" exhibition contests will consist, in driving sheep through two separate pairs of hurdles, one representing a gateway and the other a race and yarding Ihciii. Jlr. .laqucx. tlii' (iovcrnniejil canning expert, will give demonstrations of fruit preserving oil Wednesday, and Thursday afternoons, after which there v, ill b- a cessation titl Faster. The demonMralions will then be renewed and given at short interval; till the close of the K\. hibitiou.

Figbty nil]:' tire brigade,, iurHt<lui«one I'rnni Corowa. X.S.AV.. will lake |i-,n in the i-onipetiti-.-ns m (lie Sports C round Ibis week. A ei'iuineiC'eiiieni will be made to-morrow ul'lcnwon. three events taking place at ouee. Judges and oliicials held a meeting to-night, in which iinal arrangement's were made. A large number of entries have been already received for the plivsical development compelil ions (o he held in "Wonderland" in conjunction with (he search for buried treasure on Fridav. March 22.