THE EXHIBITION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8389, 30 March 1907, Page 5

THE EXHIBITION.

By Telegraph—Special Service. CHRISTCHURCH, March 28. The attendance at the Exhibition, yesterday totalled well over ten thousand though the weather was execrable most of the day. This, afternoon again there has been frequent rain, which has not seemed to diminish the crowd at the Exhibition. The town is full of visitors from the country, and the excursionist traffic from Qunedin and Wellington promises to easily surpass all records. The organ recital and orchestral concert, this afternoon, were very largely attended. Apart from the cadets several thousands of school children have now visited the Exhibition in larger and smaller bodies, and hundreds from a distance have made a lasting stay. The latter include schools from Napier in the North to Otautau, near Invercargill, in the extreme South. A party from Eketahuna is expected to arrive to-mor-row. The crowded attractions of the Easter period will be followed by a succession of special features which

are now taking definite form. Won- j derland is arranging a Children's Carnival for Suturday,• 6th prox., with sports and races for the little ones, in conjunction with another search for buried treasure. All the results of the judging of the exhibits arid home industries competitions have now been declared. The Home Industries Committee has experienced a difficulty in many cases in tracing the identity of *the competitors in different sections- who are represented by a number but not by their names. In the opening section of the literary competition, for example, a gold medal was won by No. 51, and who may be represented by that number the trying to discover. The judges' report on the district court competition states that the general appearance of the exterior of the South Canterbury court, which own .the first award, is j most attractive. It consists of a j series of articles and columns of

wheat, oats, pulse seeds, and wool treated in a novel way, but the kiosk in front, though artistic in design and execution, is an excrescence. The internal arrangement throughout is most attractive. The Auckland court, which received second awai'd, suffered'from its position, not having a frontage to any t,l the main avenues. It is partiuclarly well arrranged, and there is brightness about the whole court which is very .attractive. Trophies of llags are introduced with good effect, and the interior arrangement is the best of those in the competition, South Canterbury excepted. The North Canterbury court, which came third, is essentially a wool show. The wool is most admirably arranged, and probably the whole colony could, not have supplied a better or more representative collection. The fleeces appear to be almost entirely from shed flocks. The Ashburton court has a very effective frontage, but the background and contents are too few to entile it to full points. The arrangement of the Marlborough court has much to recommend it, but! the manner in which most of the wool is displayed is fatal to .the general effect. The Hawke's Bay court can scarcely be considered a court, being rather a series of collections. The Southland court has an unpretentious front, and though the interior furnishes a good representation of produce and resourecs of the district, the arrangement is lacking in effect. The bays of the West Coast court are well and effectively arranged, and the mainstays of the court are the splendid collections of timber and minerals, while the sundries include a magnificent collection of photographs and paintings of scenery.

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