NEW ZEALAND EXHIBITION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8290, 19 November 1906, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND EXHIBITION.

by Telegraph—Press Assooiatfon. OHRISTOHUROH, November 17. Attendance af the Exhibition today has been good, and people appear to be interesting themselves to a greater extent in a detailed examination of exhibits. The New Zealand Amateur Athletio Association's 1907 Champion-, ship meeting is to be held in the Exhibition sports enclosure. Since the opening of the Exhibition the Telegraph Office hnre v haß had a heavy strain upon it. Carnival weob oame on top of the opening, and the staff and wires* were tested to their utmost capacity. > The exhibit of the New Zealand Prisons Department at the Exhibition oocapios a small conrfc near the Machinery Hall, and although limited in variety, is yet sufficient to display, tbe great possiblliJiies of prison labour, even in the higher branches of art and handicraft. ' The jjyttelton Uaol shows a handsomely illuminated scroll of most artistic groundwork, on which is inscribed the names of the present Ministry. Tha work which must have occupied many a day of patient and painstaking labour, was executed by a prisoner serving a term in the gaol. The same penitentiary exhibits a well-built dogcart, some fine specimens of quarried stone and other articles of gaol manufacture. Wellington contributes some well finished tnats nud pottery, Auokland quarried stone and other items, New Plymouth a neat model of the prison ther«. The display on the whole is creditable to the different prisons represented. The Marlborough seotion has a oonspiuuous site, and makes a trim and tasteful display. There is a large and varied collection of seeds and grain showing bushel samples, interspersed with small sheaves of wind resisting barley. A line collection of photographs of the province distributed around the court serves to adorn the exhibits and fill in the vacant spaces. There is an excellent display of wool, hemp and skins, a pretty model of a plough and a number of bottles of assorted New Zealand wines, manufactured [mm wines grown in the province. In addition, there is a neat stand of Maori curios, among which may be seen a paraerae or shoe an used by tha natives over 100 years ago. The other curios include a Captain Cook bronze medal piok«d up in the East Bay, Queen Charlotte Sound. There are al»o numerous trophies won by a Blenheim resident from time to time. Among the fleeces exhibit is one which wns awarded a first prize at the recent St. Louis Exposition.