THE MELBOURNE EXHIBITION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 8980, 18 February 1888, Page 5

THE MELBOURNE EXHIBITION.

[BY TELEGRAPH.PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Friday. AT a meeting of the local Commissioners for the Melbourne Exhibition the following cable, received from the secretary in Melbourne, was considered — Space Committee recommend grant New Zealand 5000 feet in annexes, having few feet frontage to grand central avenue ; '2000 feet for fernery, &c., between main hall and annexes, also space for machinery in eastern machinery annexe." It was decided Mr. Commissioner Seed should leave by the first steamer for Melbourne in order to represent that it would be simply impossible to make anything like adequate representation for the colony with tne small amount of space offered, and every endeavour will be made to get something like the 20,000 feet of floor space originally asked for. The secretary's report showed that the cases of exhibits of timber, minerals, &c., from the Colonial and Indian Exhibition are now at the disposal of the Commissioners, and applications had been made for private firms to the number of 64 for 7135 feet of space, to the value of £7377, for groups of works of art, education, fictile and textile manufactures, raw and manufactured products, machinery, alimentary products, sanitation, agriculture, horticulture, and the mining industries.