New Zealand International Exhibition. Executive Commissioners' Office, Christchurch, 24th November, 1905.

Progress, Volume I, Issue 2, 1 December 1905, Page 40

New Zealand International Exhibition. Executive Commissioners' Office, Christchurch, 24th November, 1905.

Mr F. H. Chamberlain, electrical engineer to the Chris tchurch Tramway Board, is engaged to prepare a scheme for the lighting of the Exhibition buildings and grounds, and for the supply of electrical power for exhibits requiring to be shown in motion. The electric pneumatic organ and a number of side-shows, including the water chute, require a considerable extent of electrical power. In preparing a lighting scheme Mr. Chamberlain proposes to prepare his in such a manner as will give gas lighting an opportunity to display its value, the machinery hall being detached for that purpose. The Canadian Pacific Railway Company propose to carry all exhibits consigned to the New Zealand International Exhibition from any town in the Dominion of Canada served by their railways, to the port of Vancouver,' British Columbia, free of chaige. Their object being to promote trade between Canada and New Zealand, and advertise the facilities their combination of railway and steam services offers for economical and prompt transport. The contractor for the mam buildings (Messrs. J. & W. Jamieson, Ltd ) have made a start on the o-rounds with the erection of their plant, and large quantities of material, principally timber, are on the way. The president of the Nippon \usen Kaisha (Japan Mail Line) has signified the willingness of his Company to act as transport agents lor the Exhibition throughout Japan, and iurther expresses his desire to promote th" interests of the Exhibition m that country H. M Consul at Portland, Oregon, writing undei date the 19th Sept., states that since the closing

of the Lewis & Clark Exposition in that City, he has been inundated with enquiries relative to the New Zealand International Exhibition. The supply of Official Notices despatched to him in June last is exhausted and he asks to be furnished with a further supply without delay Mi W B Leffingwell, of Chicago who recently visited New Zealand on behalf of a syndicate of American newspapers, writing from Chicago under date the 2Qth ultimo states that interest m the New Zealand Exhibition is quite evident in that city, and he writes confidently of a number of exhibitors and visitors whom he knows intend to attend the Exhibition