A WORTHY COURT

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 89, 12 October 1931, Page 6

A WORTHY COURT

LAND FOE SPORTSMEN

JELLICOE LAUDS DOMINION

(From "The Post's" Representative.) VANCOUVER, 10th September.

With the trade treaty with Canada in the legislative hopper, so to speak, it was a happy thought to have- New Zealand represented by an attractive court at the Canadian National Exhibition, available to ,2,000,000 visitors from North America. ;

An educative and colourful exhibit, arranged under the capable direction of the New Zealand Commissioner, Mr. J. W. Collins, was located in the Dominion Government Building, near the main entrance of this mammoth exhibition, which, for size and variety of display, has no equal elsewhere. Scenic and sporting attractions were featured, as well as a display of the arts and crafts of the 'Maoris-, which drew warm commendation from the Premier of Ontario and countless thousands at the 1926 exhibition. ;

There were priceless examples of carved weapons of warfare,. modern and ancient articles of year, such as ,korowais (cloaks) and piupius (skirts). The central feature was a beautifully carved facade of a Maori whare, with a Jife-size cutout of a Maori chief at the doorway. This, with its surrounding exhibits of Taiahaj Tewhatewa (ceremonial staff), meres,' spears, and some exquisite samples of greenstone, drew a chorus of favourable comment.

To people of a country, that also boasts sporting fish, the rainbow and brown trout, weighing up to 201b, swordfish heads, and, in photographic illustration, the world record swordfish, weighing 9711b, had a. special appeal.

Big game hunters, whose choice Of "bag" in North America runs to the brown bear, the fiercest denizen of the forest, weighing nearly a ton, lingered at the newest specimen of New Zealand's wild life, the chamois, progeny of the foundation herd presented by the r nperor Franz Josef in 1907, somewhere about the time President Roosevelt sent the first moose- to New Zealand.

LORD JELLICOE TO THE FORE.

An extra New Zealand note was given by the fact that Lord Jellicoe, j former Governor-General, opened the exhibition. Lord Jellicoe's unfading interest in New Zealand was shown by his first act after declaring the exhibition open. He brought its most distinguished guests, the Lieutenant' Governor, Sir William Mulock, the British High Commissioner, Sir William Clark, and the president of the exhibition, Mr. S. Harris, to the New Zealand Court and delivered a high-class review' of its resources, particularly in the realm of diversion with rod and gun. Facing a map, Lord Jellicoe indicated the Tongariro River—"the- finest trout stream in the world," he said—and the mountains of Otago, whero your representative .first saw the light. Near Lake Wanaka he shot deer, he told an audience that had now grown to several hundreds. It called to memory his last hunting expedition, prior to leaving New Zealand, when someone stole his 16-pointer head, only to .return it a few days later, when the hue and cry was raised, and the miscreant learned, to his apparent sorrow* -that he had robbed the hero of Jutland!

Lord Jellieoe, in the course of his delightful word-odyssey, regretted he could not show his friends some of New Zealand's " wonderful products—notably lamb, wool, and fruit. The suggestion may bear fruit when next New Zealand-is represented at the exhibition. ■■■■■-■