THE EXHIBITION.

Evening Star, Issue 12865, 14 July 1906, Page 5

THE EXHIBITION.

THE GOVERNMENT SELECT Mil HILL.

AND OVERRIDE THE ENTERTAIN-

MENT COMMITTEE

[Special to the Stab.] WELLINGTON, July 14. Mr Alfred Hill, of Wellington, has been selected by the Government as conductor f or the Exhibition orchestra.

[The Entertainment Committee iecently determined to obtain the services as conductor of Mr Arundel Orchard, of Sydney. That was before applications were "called f br the position. When applications were received it was found that there were about twenty, and the Committee again selected Mr Orchard, and urged that he should be •appointed immediately. Thereupon an influential Wellington deputation, including Mr Maughan Barnett,' urged on the Government the appointment of Mr Alfred Hill. The Government, after consideration, decided in favor of the Wellington man.]

COMPLAINTS AS TO SPACE

[Sfecial to the Star.]

CHRISTCHUBCH, July 14. The Wellington complaint ae to alleged delay on the pari' of the Exhibition authorities in informing applicants for 6pace, as the result of requests, is replied to by the chairman of the Space Committee as follows:—"Since amplications for 6pace closed the Commissioners, director of exhibits, and Space Committee have been at work conifcinuoußly. When you conrider that there were between ?00 and 1.000 apnlications for space, varying from four square feet to 5,000, and of all sorts, shapes, and natures, yon can get some idea of the almost .herculean task given to tile Commifcteo. The space allotted to applicants has frontages extending for more than five miles in lengtih, and the spaces required aire of 6uoh varying sizes and shapes that it 'has been a -writable Chinese puzzle to fit in all the exhibits. Anali.

cants can hardly appreciate tiro magnitude of this work. Moreover, the work has been delayed aratil the receipt of applies;-? tions from the bulk of the British «x? hibitors throagb the office of the High. Commissioner, and tie "lan of allotment drawn oat by him, which came to hand only by the last San Francisco mail. In .consequence of some alterations mode by. the High Commissioner in the block plan the Committee had to begin their worl£ de novo. With resoect to the British, section, all those interested in the sacoees of the Exhibition are fully alive to the' neP: oessity of letting exhibitors have the earliest oossible intimation as to spaces allotted to them. The officers ing at the highest pressure in order to get out allotment plans to exhibitors,;