SYDNEY EXHIBITION.

Press, Volume XXXI, Issue 4285, 24 April 1879, Page 2

SYDNEY EXHIBITION.

The usual weekly meeting of the looJ**. • mittee of the Sydney Exhibition waa hr'rf i' 2.80 p.m. yesterday. Pre»ent-3ftt»ri n* \ Tamer (chairman), Nathan, and w t> Wood. ' * ' The Chairman read the followine teW. l from the Secretory of the Central eX* *- oion :—•• Gommisiionert desire that all jJ !'" cations for space you con pouibly nS, may be forwarded here at- once. Dm b eary to wait for exhibit*. Bequiw to i»~T* i scheme for New ZealandfioaJfc" *W Excellenoy the Q-oTernor havicr ui,, m ,j ft" office of President he will Mj** committee on hie visit South. Dr, Htotet has been appointed vice-chairman &ak ci™«, ( tire oommieeioner." Hi> might nt tiwt V ' had ieen Dr. Heotor when he vu W . who trusted that there would bo a ' number of exhibit*, m, from what h* bJ > ieen in Philadelphia, a very crediUibb S« 1 Zealand court oould be made. I for apaoe had been received from Mr SWj S for exhibit! of tankards and old plite f e I epecimeru of forest trees grown in Hew'zjj. i land, &c. Mr O-ibb had also applied foj | for paintioga. (, A letter was read from the secretary of tb '- Central Commission, stating that at a mettb I of the eommuaion on the Bth April the ml ' geation of the lecal oommittee to the ef4 '~ that the oommusionere should obtain tiii t loan of some special artiolea from the Cantti- ) bury Museum was -Brarmly approred cf, t it was thought that your committee we» tb - proper people to make the application to £b I trustees of the Museum. I A letter was read from Mr G. Thoatoa, \ stating that he would be prepared to fnrnbh | a model of Lyttelton Harbor wcrb, wbisi I he -hoped would be ready in time. s Mr Nathan said he desired to mn» F Museum exhibit* sent up. | The Chairman said that Dr. Hsest had kt I little except moa bones which could be test, t Mr Nathan would like to eertd the ibletos I o! the moa to the Exhibition. It jrould b ! ono of the greatest attraction* there. \tr Wood agreed with Mr Naihm, sad thought that they should apply direct to the Board of Grovernors for the mos to be saat over. The chairman quite esdoned w\uit W J fallen from Meserj Wood end | the neoeaaitj of esadiag over the moa, f flfr Jfnt&an would liio to see the \ of the local committee interviewing fe t Board of G-overnore, and put them in pa* f sioa of their views on the subject of the lav I of the objects from the Museum, espeasii | the moa. The latter would be on* of tit l ' most attractive features of the Exhibition, It was resolved that the chairman Mβ tb member* of the Board of Governors on tii! ■nbject. t It was also resolved to write to Mr C. '$<l Bell, aiking him if the plans of the Lytt#un! dry dook were so far advanocd es intaM enable them to be photographed for oxiffel-sV tion. " r;

The Chairman said ho wishid ta ns«sfea'|i.., that the oemmiasioners were entering &<}'«:-■' contracts for the supply of glass cnste jn s'' which perishable articles or valuable jewaliffi? & requiring to be protected by glass would » , so done at the cost of the commissioners, tki p not entailing any cost on the exhibitor}, li ';, was very necessary that this ehoald h r thoroughly understood by exhibitors, yte t might otherwise not feel themselves at liberty f, ■ to send their goods so requiring protection. i, After some further desultory convereatfes, f the meeting adjourned. \y .... . , ..- _— rt *