JAPAN-BRITISH EXHIBITION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 857, 1 July 1910, Page 4

JAPAN-BRITISH EXHIBITION.

TEE NEW ZEALAND PAVILION. "The New Zealand exhibit in tha Japan-British Exhibition is (says the "Times") compact and complete, and is conveniently housed in a pavilion of its

own. Tho dead meat suspended in a. glass refrigerator arrests the attention of tlie visitor at once, and reminds him l that Canterbury lamb is New Zealand's most characteristic export. In the exhibition refrigerator it is pot only lamb and mutton that are shown, apparently, in tlio best condition; there arc turkeys, geese, butter' and cheese, and apples and other fruit. •'Photo are three chambers! that for the dead meats has a tempera* hire of IS to 29 degrees Fahrenheit; that for butter and cheese 3i decrees; and that for the apples 40 degrees. When these various foods are taken out of the refrigerator iu three months' timo it ia elainud that they will be foimd to be as good as if they" were l'resh—indeed, to be fresh in the. essential meaning of that word. It is of .some importance to New Zealand to insist upon this efficiency of the refrigerator, for most of her 22,000,000 sheep ami 2,000,000 cattle per year come to England dead, and the voyage from New Zealand to Bngland occupies six weeks. So jealous is the State of New Zealand of the reputation of this important industry that it subjects the sheep awl cattle of the Dominion to inspection both on the farms and in the slaughter-houses; ami a drastic system lias m-educwl the happy results that plcuro-pneumonia and foot-amt-moutb are 110 longer known in Nev," ZealaiWaiul tuberculosis is beiug stamped "'"There, are other .inspections at the port of shipment and in the London docks; and on board the ships there are duplicate refrigerators, so that if one should •<et out of order afiother may be available The value, of the Dominion's dead meat export is £5,000,000 or one-fourth of the valuo of her exports. Wool, which is exhibited in the pavilion in many attractive forms, continues to bo the 'chief export; ,£7.000,000 worth was brought to England last year, hew Zealand, though she exports little grain, having found meat, wool, and dairy produce more profitable commodities to offer to other countries, still boasts that her •n-ain yield per acre is second only to that of Great Britain. The sheaves of main in the pavilion are the best evidence of the good quality of the crops, and perhaps the quantity at no distant date will be mucli greater. 'Thc-Domin-' ion is cultivating a wine industry with courage and perseverance, but that, has; not yet got beyond a promising infancy. The grapes and the wines are exhibited. There are al-o specimens o? New Zealand's minerals—coal, iron, and gold; and hemp, rape, twine, and beautiful woods. An important article of export is the kauri gum, which is found in tho soil on the sites of old kauri forests and is manufactured into varnish. A remarkable collection of 200 pieces _of fossilised resin, the property of Mrs. Kielsen, of Auckland, is one of the most beautiful exhibits at Shepherd's Bush. These pieces have been polished to an.' amber richness, and more than an amber transparency, ami fossilised within them are seen the insects of ages a{;o and tho relics of ancient forest tires. Around lbs walls of the pavilion are the manypointed heads of deer, the offspring of Windsor deer presented to Xev,- Zealand' in ISO! by the Prince Consort."