COLONIAL PRODUCTS EXHIBITION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13392, 22 January 1907, Page 6

COLONIAL PRODUCTS EXHIBITION.

[by tklkukaph.—OWN COI'.RKSI'ONIIKN 1 .]

Wki.li.V(;tc)V, Monday. Tiik Department of Industries and Commerce has shipjvcd by the Riiapehu a large quantity of exhibits of New Zealand products and manufactures for the Colonial Products Exhibition, to be held at Liverpool in Mai next, and to be followed by the Irish International Exhibition at Dublin, opening ill May. The exhibits will be shown at Liverpool, and then transferred to Dublin. The shipment is made up of iroiisaiid, a complete set of butter box and cheese ease ends for trophy purposes, natural mineral waters. New Zealand wines, woollen rugs, flannels and blankets, a full range of grass seeds, wheat, oats, barley, beans and peas, tinned peas and fruits, jams and sauces, pickles, condensed milk, sets of portmanteaux, bags, harness and saddles (manufactured from New Zealand leather), fleeces of wool (collected from leading rowers ill the country), and a bah* of each grade of hemp and tow. A brass tablet, giving tin* total gold output of New Z**al./nd. will also lie included in the Department's shipment, also samples of New Zealand woods. Private firms have co-operated v>ith lit" Department in a generous manner. A full supply of literature and pictures dealing with New Zealand products, manufactures. and tourist resorts also went for ward. It is the intention of the Department to make a further shipment for Ireland at the end of next mouth.