DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19148, 14 October 1925, Page 12

DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.

PROVINCIAL COURT FUND. THREE GIFTS OF £IOO EACH. Donations of £IOO each were yesterday made to the fund for the Auckland Provincial. court at the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition by the Auckland Industrial Association, Auckland Chamber of Commerce and Auckland Racing Club. At a special meeting of the Industrial Association the chairman, Mr. J. A. C. Allum, moved that £IOO should bo donated to the fund on condition that the Auckland Chamber of Commerce and the Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Association gave a similar amount. The motion was carried unanimously. Subsequently a deputation headed by Mr. F. M. Hills, a member of the committee of the Auckland court, waited on the council of the. Chamber of Commerce and asked for reconsideration of the recent refusal to contribute. The council rescinded the resolution and a motion favouring a contribution of £IOO. proposed by Mr. J. A. C. Allum, was carried unanimously. FIJIAN COURT EXHIBIT. MANY INTERESTING FEATURES. The exhibits for the Fiji Court, at the Dunedin Exhibition, with four Fijian attendants, arrived at Auckland this week by the Aorangi. One of (he most interesting features of the court, will be a native ' I Hire," or meeting house. Timber and thatch have been brought from the islands, and the house will be erected by two native builders. The court has been planned to demonstrate the native industries and natural products of Fiji, and there will be exhibits of mats, baskets, tapa cloth, native weapons of historic interest, and a wide range of Island curios. Samples of rice, sugar, cotton, copra and other products will also be shown, while a line selection of photographs will advertise the natural] beauties f>!' the country. If possible, arrangements will be made for shipments of fresh fruit to be placed on sale every month. There will be a pub- < licity booth in connection with the court, where literature will be procurable. The court attendants will he four Fijians and two Gilbert and Eliiee Islanders, who will wear the native costume. Every morning at 11 o'clock they will beat the big Fijian war-drum to summon visitors lo watch the preparation of the native beverage, yanquona—better known as kava —which the visitors will be invited to sample. In the evenings the court attendants will sing their native- ! songs, and as all have beautiful voices, this should prove a great attraction. _ The Fijians are being accommodated at the Y.M.C.A. during jjjheir stay in Auckland. The party is under the care of the Fijian Court Commissioner, Mr. R. Boyd, and will leave for Wellington either this . evening or to-narrow.