EXHIBITION ATTRACTIONS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 27 October 1925, Page 10

EXHIBITION ATTRACTIONS.

BIG GOVERNMENT DISPLAY. Among hundreds of unique features at the New. Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition, which will, be opened in Dunedin by the GovernorGeneral in three weeks’ time, is the big pavilion occupied by the New Zealand Government with a remarkable, display, the result of co-operation by fifteen Government departments. Here the visitor will find a complete' working post office. Signs direct the stranger to the cinema theatre, where films of New Zealand scenery and life in town and country will be: screened daily, including some of the best of those which were screened at Wembley. The unique scenic attractions of the, Dominion will be. further displayed by the Tourist Department! by means of splendid photographs and illustrations, and the country’s sporting resources will be. represented by full-sized specimens l of stuffed deer, thar., chamois, and other

game, and by one of the finest collections of deer heads even displayed. One of the most striking features of the court is also devoted to depicting the charm of New Zealand’s country. It is a big model of Milford Sound, showing Mitre Peak, specially made for the Government by a London artist., Probably one of the first things which the visitor will notice is an aeroplane suspended/ among the rafters to show it in fighting order, with the bombs tucked under the wings'. A second aeroplane, field guns, mines, and other weapons of war are shown by the Defence Department, and it is significant of the size of the pavilions that these big exhibits fit into' their surroundings quite comfortably. The Railway Department has a length of standard track to demonstrate the working of automatic safety signalling, points and crossings, and the Public Works Department shows interesting models of bridges and hydro-electric stations and other big public works. In another pavilion locomotives and the latest in Sleeping cars are on view. Among the other departments represented in this splendid pavilion, are the Post and Telegraph, which features a most interesting, exhibit of telegraph, telephone and wireless apparatus; the Mines Department, which shows a working model of a mine shaft; the Forestry and Agricultural Departments (the latter has experimental plots just outside the building); and the Department of Industries and Commerce, which displays a remarkable coloured poster showing on one large canvas the history of the Dominion since the days of its occupation by the Maoris.