WELLINGTON COURT

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 27, 31 December 1925, Page 5

WELLINGTON COURT

AT THE EXHIBITION. FLOOR MAP OF FOUR PROVINCES. The great floor map of New Zealand in the Wellington, Nelson, Taranaki, and Hawke’s Bay Provincial Court at the Dunedin Exhibition has now been completed. Its changing lights catch the eye, and tho map is attracting a groat deal of attention from visitors, states tho Dunedin Star. By means of moving red lights the map shows the railways of tho four combined provinces, and bv moving blue lights the main road where no through railway connection exists. 1 The principal towns are indicated by white lights and flags bearing their names. Handsome giltframed panels inset round the map, and electrically illuminated one after the other, give the shipping statistics of tho chief ports, indicated by brilliantly lighted ships; also the primary produce figure for the four provinces. The sixty-mile gap betweon the,South Island Main Trunk line and the’ Glen-hope-Nelson railway line stands out very clearly on the map. The population statistics, given below, show that the four combined provinces have a total population (464,144) just over one-third of that of tho Dominion as a whole (1,379.487): Wellington 275,708 Taranaki 69,761 Hawke’s Bay 69,202 Nelson 49,473

Total for the four provinces 464,144 PRIMARY PRODUCTS AND SHIPPING.

The following products of the different provinces for the past year are shown:

Hawke’s Bay.—Sheep, 2,950,726; dairy cows, 56,647; wool shorn, 25,618,3391b5.

Taranaki Province. —Dairy .cows, 196,608; output of butter and cheese, £3,473,608. Nelson Province.—Area under orchards, 7407 aqres; output of coal, 356,545 tons; unlimited mineral wealth.

Wellington Province.—Wairarapa, 2,069,113 sheep and 67,559 dairy cows; Wanganui, 1,375,796 sheep and 42,458 dairy cows; Manawatu and Rangitikei, 1,871,411 sheep and 112,311 dairy cows. Totals: 5,267,793 sheep, 204,872 dairy cows, 46.252,8681bs of wool shorn, and £3,452,319 worth of butter and cheese. Tho ports of the four provinces account for some 40 per cent, of tho total shipping (measured by value of imports and exports taken together) of tho whole Dominion : Wellington £30,082,616 Napier 4,930,763 Wanganui 2,871,88 S New Plymouth ... 2,045,879 Nelson 242,814

Total for combined provinces £40,213,960 Total for Do- t minion £101,140,314