GOVERNMENT EXHIBITS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 278, 24 November 1898, Page 5

GOVERNMENT EXHIBITS.

WELLINGTON, this day,

The Public Works Department is to : be well represented at /the Auckland Exhibition. A number of exhibits have been already sent forward, and the ■ last lot leave to-day by the Waihora. At the Wellington Exhibition the Department had eighteen large photographs l-epresenting typical New Zealasid scenes enclosed in ferns, designed : to set forth the characteristics of New Zealand woods. The Department is sending- sixty of these exhibits to Auckland. It is also sending a timber . trophy in the form of an obelisk constructed in bands of various timbers, each representing one year, indicating to a vertical scale of £20,000 to an inch the value of the colony's timber export trade for each year from 1880, , as well as the progressive values. The obelisk is triangular in section, with

two sides measuring each two feet in width, the back being three feet wide. It stands 10 feet 8 inches high. Another notable exhibit to be sent by the Department is a combined mantel azid

overmantel, comprising eighteen hundred pieces of timber of thirteen varieties: puriri, totara, knot totara,, burr, black maire, mottled silver pine, , pahautea, honeysuckle, rimu, totara, .

mottled kauri, towai, wavy kauri, and akeake. A drawing accompanies the exhibit, showing by means of distinctive colours the class of timber of which every portion is made.