THE LAST PHASE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 196, 13 May 1908, Page 4

THE LAST PHASE.

NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL exhibition; ' Tho last phase of tho New Zealand-Jnter-' 'national Exhibition did not close when its last .timbers were ignominiously dragged olf-j for firewood. Contracted to a very little .span, the groat project which eovorcd acres of Hagley Park: with din add bustlo is ebbing out its well-nigh • forgotten existence' in a small; room ,iin,:this city.ij •S&-'PGrry; r ßogistrarVof : Aivards;-is ttheoniy officer of a onco largo staff , who remains' to watch the dying .throes, jf Ho l is still responsible in financial matters to Mr. D. G,: Clark, the former Director of Finance,' but Mr. Clark returned some weeks ago to his ordinary duties as a clerk in the Land and income Tax Department, and theso havo : taken him away to the South Island. Mr; Perry states that it took tlireo years to wind up completely the afEairs' ; bf-.the St. Louis Exhibition; those'of the'last'Noiv 'Zeaj-, land , show will probably be concluded • by the' .time Parliament meets.'--. There V-ar6' transactions with. English and . other foreign exhibitions'.■which still, require : correspondence,'.and numerous'; applicationsare,-, re? ceived, by firms-who' had-,cUfferont:,branches! for copies of certificates of." 'award- 1 'received, by tliem. , The'f Official, Recdrd of : thi Exhibition is, also still-i in ;hai)d. A Jvjt' isi-bp* ing compiled by ■'• Mr. - James 'Cowan,'; of ;■ the Department of Tourist and Health; Resorts, and will 'contain huge quantities of information and statistics for futuro reference, besides descriptive chapters of a lighter character; It is expected' that the " Official Record " will bo fmishedin time for presen--tatiou'.to Parliament when'it'meets noit session.