EXHIBITION NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1079, 18 March 1911, Page 10

EXHIBITION NEWS.

v THE LIGHTING TENDERS, Tho prico at which tho Wellington Gas Company havo agreed to light tho f 'U" building at tho Coronation Industrial Exhibition, which opens on May 24, is £169. A lower tender from tho Municipal Electrical Department was rejected, as tho Exhibition -Committee desiro to ehow; both gas and electric lighting. The gas light? in tho "U" building will .bo of great power and brilliancy. They are to bo of tho high-prcssuro order, a variety of gas-liglit which has never previously been exhibited in ! Now Zealand. It is stated that in a way theso lights approximate to the metal filament ■lamps used' in _ electric lighting, inasmuch as they givo an increased light at reduced cost. ' , .The corporation has agreed to light the building by electricity at a prico of £116. This' includes £6 for secondary lighting in tho_"U" building. Under their by-laws, tho corporation insist 'that two independent lighting schemes shall bo provided in every public buildiiiig. No definite choice has yet been rnado of, secondary lights for the "J" :building. ; SPACE AND.THE CONCERT HALL. . .The Exhibition has a total available space for letting of 17.000 square feet. ; Of this area 11,419 ft. have been already let, and the secretary (Mr. H. F. Allen) ■ states that he know's 1 of several largo applications for spaco.lthat aro pending. ; )i'A fal'r doncoptioirWthe importance 'of the Exhibition may be gathered from ' : tho fact that tho Concert Hall will seat '1500 people, and has an area of -9373 'sciuaro feet. Tho Concert H;Cli'«f'-th"e ' Exhibition of 1885 had a floor space of only 4939 feet, and the ■ Concert Hall at the Exhibition held in • Wellington,.in 1897, ,on ,tho Town Hall. ,/site,'/had'fin area of 4500 ft. It thus •srppears that tho Coronation Exhibition l C6h'cerfc ifnll will liavo an area as largo (as the combined area: of tho'halls,at tho Hwo previous exhibitions.

COMMISSIONERS. APPOINTED. , By courtesy of tho Under-Secrctary 'for Internal, Affairs (Mr. H. Pollen), tho ■ Exhibition secretary lids been permitted to view the Order-in-Couiicil whore-' 'by' his Excellency the''Governor sanctions the holding of the. Coronation Exhibition. Mr.- T. Ballinger (president ; of,'tho Industrial Association) is appointed by his Excellency Chief Commissioner, and Messrs. - L. 11. Partridgo .rfind E. Bull (vice-presidents of the 111fflUstrial _ Association) are appointed' in association with Mr. vJJallinger. •:

FREIGHT RATES. The Minister for Railways (the Hon. f'J. A. Millar) has written to the Exhibition secretary, stating that exhibits, will -~be conveyed' to the Exhibition, on the 'Government lines of..railway, free of (charge, subject to certain conditions. .All exhibits must be consigned to tho ".secretary, and legibly marked "For ex- , / hibition only." Tho goods will'bo oon.voyed at owners' risk. If any exhibits • are sold,, ordinary ..charges will be tie-, imanded- by the Department for . their {{transport. On production of a certiiiVcato from the secrotarythat goods have 'not been transferred,: -exchanged, or isold, they.uyill be car-tied freo. on the rajlways;on- ,tho return,.journey. - • Subject to a similar, condition, goods will be/.carried free by, the ships of the • Huddart,- Parker Company on the return journey, though ordinary rates will ; Ijjx levied for tho conveyance of goods •to; the Exhibition.

PROPOSED TRAMWAY. ,■... The secretary is writing to tho City Council, asking whether it would bo pos- . eiblo to lay the line of tr'annVay, already 'authorised,' from Stewart Dawson's cor.i. ner along Customhouse Quay, prior to the opening, of the.Exhibition.