NEW ZEALAND EXHIBITION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8283, 10 November 1906, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND EXHIBITION.

By Telegraph—Press Association. OHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 9. Tbe Governor entertained tbe Ministeis Oi tbe Crown at a luncheon at the Exhibition buildings to-day. Judging by appearances tbia after, noon tbe attendance is a record since tbe opening day, and the officers state that tbe full day's turnstile reCdrds will show the number of visitors to te close up to thai of Thursday week. \ * Auart from the arrests of several youths, last week, the police have bad absolutely no trouble with the great crowds of visitors. The police believe there is ascertain amount of pilfering going on which it is difficult to detect, but they look upon that as idevitable. There has not been a single case of drunkenness recorded. Tbe New Sooth Wales Oonrfc contains a very fine display of exhibits intended to -illustrate tbe great natural resources of the Mot tier State. Two small bays are devoted to the State Agricultural Department and the Sydney Technical School. The former entirely with exhibits from the State Farms, and is filled with cereals, grasses and other products of tbe land. The height to which cereals and grasses attain in tbe fertile soilfof New South Wales is depicted in theae exhibits, the stalk in some instances being no less than six feet long. The Sydney Technical School shows a fine collection of paintings, drawings and modellings. In regard to minerals, gold, silver, copper, lead, tin and coal are amongst the chief items in this section. There Is a remarkably.fine exhibit pf marbles of various kinds. There is a large displayjjof wines and similar products by private firms. The fine collection of panoramic views which ornament the walls of the. oonrt enable the visitors to realise something of the charaoter and potentialities of tbe country and the methods pursued in regard to mining, farming and other leading industries. The Victorian Governments Court has a striking and well arranged exhibit, descriptive of tbe States products and progress in various directions.. In the oonrtji.s an enormous gilt obelisk representing a quarter of the solid gold mined In Victoria during the, past.ss years. It was intended, to hare erected an obelisk representing the full hulk of the gold output of the State',, but it was found to be too high for the Exhibition Buildings. The average yield per annum is Bbotfn to have been close on £5,000,000. Ihe Royal Agricultural Sooiefcy has forwarded samples of prize wheat, oats and barley, which runs from 68lbi to 69ibs to tbe bushel. From the Murray River comeß a remarkable slab of red gum, ,10 feet by 4 feet 10 inches. The' Jiallarat , School of Mines sen Is fossils of rare value, obtained at a great depth. A collection of magnificent fleeoea of wool from different stations is also shown. In oonueotion with the difficulties , arising over Exhibition affairs, the. Government decided at a Cabinet meeting, to-day, to effect a change by abolishing the office of Chairman of the Incentive Commissioners!, and : putting the Exhibition under direct oonttol of a Minister. At a meeting of the Executive Council Mr Man | ro's resignation as Exeoutive Commissioner was accepted. Ministers will in turn remain in Christ-' church, while the Exhibition is > open. Minister ; resident here , under, the . Act: be Executive Commissioner. The Government came to the contusion that with the responsibility' of a great undertaking now in , working order it should be administered under direct Government authority during the, first fortnight. ■ The Hon. A. Pitt will be the resident Minister in supreme control of the Exhibition, and each Minister in turn. In recognition of the practical success attending bis work the. Government have decided to offer Mr Monro the position of general manager of the Exhibiton. He has accepted the appointment.

I EXHIBITION. NOTES. (By a Lady Visitor). OHRISTOHUKOH, Nov. 8. Visitors to the Exhibition find it very difficult to locate the different courts: it is extremely probable that some of tbe smaller exhibits have never been discovered by the casual frequenters. Consequently there is a gooct deal of grumbling, and much gratis advice as to the best means of, directing visitors to the various courts- and pavilions; The suggestion struck us ! as being worthy of notice, was that a large plan should be stretched on one of the walls of the main enclosure, without in any way detracting from the general- appear anoe, which is really very line, ending as it does in a beautiful fernery. The latter is builc in a opol shade of green glass and filled with tree ferns, cabbage trees, flax, puketqis and other native palms, with numerous small ferns everywhere, and with, rookeries, rustic bridges, waterfalls, fountains, and a pond stocked with trout. Remarks made by visitors from other aountrieß are sometimes heard with a shook of surprise, especially if a reflection is in any way oast on New Zealand as a country. There is ao tea," said an Australian, "fit to drink; it is all Ceylon tea." He meant he preferred China tea, and seemed to bear a grudge against the authorities because he had not cultivated a taste for pure Qeyton tea. A Scotchman grumbled because, he could dnly gee American rolled oats, instead good old fashioned oatmeal porridge, for breakfast, although he had changed his lodging nine times. We fancy he. is still changing lodgings. Some Queenslanders argne that the butter and bacon of New < Zealand are inferior to Queensland's butter and bacon, and any, in proof, that they Ret more sun ; therefore the fodder has more sugar, hence the superior quality of their butter and bacon. We left them arguing. A sweet English girl, perhaps, had some reason in her observation that her best frock was always eclipsed by the New Zealand girls'' second-best, and ' that the New Zealand giils had three frocks to her one.

Wellington people are jocularly congratulating tuemselv>». and one another on th* (act that Christ" church is windi«r and dustier than Wellington. An American obdtsrveri that New Zealand is a small ooon'ry, but the New Zealanders have "whopping ideas, and have built a big building, which is very imposing but never quite full." A 1 young lady, baili:;>./ from Auckland, has ccuai-u'ruble talent * in portrait painting, hns eat up a studio at the one can have one's poiti-.it stretched in pencil, while one --< -tus, for the BQjall fee of hutf a ere wn Judging from a visit, she is I'tMy to make it pay. So far we h>v not found an exhibit from the \V t iiraiapa, exoept that; of Messrs Donald and Sons, who have a veiy good stand in the part set aside for machinery exhibits. iheir presses aud wirestrainers have been exceptionally well spoken of by some of the lead* ing sheepfarmers, one of whom remarked that with their press, woolpressing lost all its troubles, and that fencing with their wirestrainer is a recreation.