EXHIBITION MEDALS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 18 April 1907, Page 4

EXHIBITION MEDALS.

mi'HOME INDUSTRIES COMMITTE! bie PROTEST. to- ■=■" ra- Tile Chairman of the Home Indhi ■hh trie/t Committee (Mr W. Alinson) ha se- leslgrirJdi He states that on March 2 .n. a tender had beeli nc?epted by th m- general man ger of the Exhibition fc re- the supply of gold, silver, and bronz of medals for the home industries award st- The design had been selected and Ih •ed order given without the knowledge o ns- approval of the Committee, althoug ■j*- the Gommitteo had been repeated! ' et assured that they would be consultei and their approval obtained. Th f°? indignity was one that no self-respectin ied eomttiitlfee.eould endnre. He had then he f ore fen t in his rtoignation, and th lat - Committee had decided to follow su: ln unless a satisfactory settlement wa . come to. The Committee had inter °}. viewed the Acting Prime Minister whe °H he was passing through Christchurcl ]R and the position was explained to hir, ';: and liS (Mr Minson) felt quite satisfle ll ? that Mr Hall JoneS find a soli '.. tion of the difficulty that Would Ir .jj satisfactory to the Committee In tl . meantime, the- work uf the Committc '11.,I 1 ., would be held in abeyance. The Cou j mittee objected to the action of Ai _ e Munro in ignoring them in tho matte [j le and they also strongly objacted to tt choice of medal made. The type < ,; D . ta&iliil cno'jen by. Mr Munro was aboi as _ tte size of a farthing. The gold nied; to was of nine carat gold, and wottld eo er- 13s Gd, the slver would cost 4s 6d, all ew the bronze 3s 6d— ali ths medals bin :he of the samu design. The Committi ing felt that such medals were utterly nr

—am i^ ooooooo_o_______________________oooooooooom ■ — i worthy of an International Exhibition, and they felt that if they approved of those medals they would be guilty of a great breach of failh with the exhibi- F\ tors and competitors. Mr Minson J tt Idea that there was also trouble over A I the certificates. The Committee had L I approved of a design, and had ordered £ the certificates from a local printer, but ( £ Mr Hall-Jones had informed him innt the ceitificates we^e being printed at the Government Printing Office. That was g quite news to tbe Committer, and he Id not know what would be dine £ eventually. In conclusion, Mr Minson u said that Mr Hall-Jonea had promised to bring the maltor bef jre ilij Cabinet t this week. e Mr Munro, when questioned cn the 1 subject, stated that ths matter had no- ti '' thing to do with him, but was s-imply a c question between the Minister and the c : _ommittee. He denied that the Kxecu- , c tive Commissioners had done anything moro than give their sanction to the [ securing of gold, tilver, and bronze ( medals without anything being specified 1 as to size or values. He consiJese'i thai / ihe medals that bad been ordered were S quite suitable. I

=— School gardens find much favour with | the agricultural writer of a Wellington journal. He says they aro doing educational work that " must silence the many critics who havo treated the movenent with amused contempt." He gives an instance in which children have proved "' what can be done under adverse weather conditions." " A e teacher," he says. '; undaunted by the i- advice that the soil of the school e g'O'-nds was t„o wet for a successful i. 'garden, set out to overcome the cou d siderable natural difficultits. With the n assistance of tilo drams he attained ex>f cellent success. In t.,e big schoolig garden competition in tho Feiliing d>sy trict, this school came third, and one of io the bo3's, his interest being awakenea 3- by his school plot, continued the work d of plant cultivation at hrme, with the ie result that he obtained three prizes in 3. the children's section at the last Feild9, ing show. This particular school— or. f rather, a country teacher on a small of palary with the assistance of bis pupilsis furnished an object-lesson of decided is value to the farmers of the district.'' One Yarmouth herring boat, which ? n has had remarkable success during the year, earned a sum nearly equal to £101 7' a week for every week of the ybar, in- , eluding the limes the boat lay in har- "° bour between the several fishings. es The attendances at the concerts given in in Glasgow under the auspices of tht ns corporation have so much declined that ie, thev have all been discontinued with the 1 he exception of two.