DECISIONS' SPECIALLY APPLICABLE TO

Otago Daily Times, Issue 784, 18 June 1864, Page 8

DECISIONS' SPECIALLY APPLICABLE TO

Section iv.~Fine Aura.

110, It is not proposed to award prizes in this Section.

Admission of Visitors.

[111—122.] 123. The Commissioners have adopted the following regulations with respect to the admission of visitors to the exhibition: — (c) The exhibition will be open daily (Sundays excepted) during such hours as the Commissioners shall from time to time appoint. There will be one. principal entrance for "Visitors. The regulations necessary for preventing

obstructions at the entrance will be

issued prior to opening. (d) Admission to the exhibition will be given only to the owners of season tickets, and to visitors paying at the doors. Sba-SOm Ticketb. (/) Season tickets, price two guineas, will entitle the owner to admission at the opening, and all other ceremonials, as well as at all times when the building is

open to the public, (o) Season tickets must be signed before presentation. The owners must produce them, and write their names in a book at the door each time they enter the

building. (h) Season tickets are not transferable, and if presented by any other parsons than the registered owners will be forfeited, and the names of the offenders will be published. If lost, they will not be replaced, unless in special cases, sanctioned by the Commissioners.

Prices op Admission. (i) On the first Tuesday in January, 1865, on the occasion of the opening ceremonial, the admission will be restricted to the owners of season tickets, or others

paying LI for the day. (j) On the second and third days, the price of admission will be ten shillings each person, and the Commissioners reserve to themselves the right of appointing six other days when the same charge

■will be made. (jfc) From the third to the seventeenth day, five shillings. (I) From the seventeenth to the thirty-first day, two shillings and sixpence. (m) After the thirty-first day, the prices of admission will, on Saturdays, be one shilling, and on other days, two shillings and sixpence.

ADMISSION OF PERSONS AND RECEPTION OP ARTICLES DURING THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE EXHIBITION.

Admission of Persons.

1*124 1 125. No person whatever will be admitted unless he is the bearer of a pass or day ticket.

1126-135.1 , 136. Passes and day tickets must be shown on entering and leaving, and whenever demanded, within the building. 137. Passes and day tickets are not transferable. The transfer of a ticket will, on discovery, subject the holder to expulsion from the building, and prevent the person to whom it was originally issued from obtaining another admission.

[138-141,] 142. The doorkeepers will be htld responsible for any person found in the building without a pass or ticket. 143. The officer in charge of a division will be held responsible for the presence of any unauthorised person within it. 144. Every person not properly authorised found in the building or handling or conveying or removing any package or article from one part ot the building to another will be liable to be given into custody. 145. No person will be allowed to carry any bundle or parcel of any sir.c or kind whatever out of the building before it has been opened and exammed. # 146. All persons using tow or cotton waste must provide slate or metal boxes for containing the refuse. 149. Smoking is strictfy prohibited. No dogs will be admitted. 148. Tke introduction of lucifer matches into the building is strictly forbidden. 149. Officers and servants of the Commissioners must attend punctually at the appointed hours, and enter their names in the books provided for that purpose. 150. Intoxication or disobedience of orders will subject the offender to immediate dismissal. 151. The receipt of fee or payment of any kind to any officers or servants of the Commissioners will subject the receivers to dismissal. Mode of Passing New Zkaiand Goods ihto

the Building. 152. All articles must be delivered at the building with all charges and dues whatever upon them paid--153. There will be several entrances for the reception of goeds. 154. Goods and machinery, will be received during such hours only as may from time to time be fixed. „ . 156. No person but the carman will be allowed to enter with a waggon, and he will not be permitted to leave the waggon while within the precincts of the building. 156. Every article sent separately and every package must be legibly marked with the class, number, and the name of the exhibitor or exhibitors.

157. An officer will be appointed to superintend the unloading and transporting of the articles to thuir respective places, and the following regulations will be observed in the reception and the distribution of goods :— 1. Every package on its delivery into toe building to be entered in a register, with the name and addres* of the sender: the class to which it belongs, and whether received in good condition or damaged. 2. A rotation number to be marked distinctly on each package, the same number to be entered against the sender's name in the register. 3. All packages to be removed from the landing stage, and deposited in charge of the Superintendent or his deputy, at places appointed for such purposes, as soon as possible after their reception into the building. 4. Packages accidentally delivered or received at the wrong places, or front which the name of the exhibitor may have become obliterated, to be deposited in a place set apart for such packages. 5. In order to facilitate the answering of enquiries, the rotation number of all packages received during the day -will b« entered in a book, containing1 the nameß of the exhibitors, alphabetically arranged, to be made up every evening. 158. Each division will have a superintendent aßd requisite attendant. [159-160.] 161. All packing cases, &c, must be removed by the exhibitors, as scon as they receive orders from th« Commissioners to do so.' Packing cases not removed within three days after notice, will be sold and the proceeds applied to the fund« ot the exhibition. Mode of Passing Foreign and Colonial Goods ihto the Building. 162. The receipt of all foreign and colanial articles will be Bubject to the control of the offiners of the Customs, and in case any difficulty should arise, application is to be made to the »enior Customs officer of the building. 163. The officers of the Customs and their servants will be provided with pass«s, and will be privileged to enter all portions of the building in which they may have business. |164.] 165. Goods and machinery will be received during such hours only as may from time to time be fixed.

166. All articles and packages must be delivered at the building with all charges and dues whatever paid on them. 167. Every article sent leparately, and every package must be legibly marked with the name of the foreign country or colony of which they are the produce or manufacture, and, as far as practicable, with the name of the exhibitors. 169. The carts or waggons will be unloaded in rotation by the officers of the exhibition, when rotation numbers will be affixed to each package by the officers of the Customs. 170. The packages must be produced on arrival to the officer of Customs at the exhibition, who will see that the Customs' number, as well as the name of the foreign country, is affixed to each package, which will then be conveyed to its destination in the building.

171. The officer in charge of each division will see that the packages belong to that division, that the Customs' rotation number is marked thereon, and the goods are then properly Btored within it. When the articles of each country are deposited ■within the space assigned to them, the exhibitors or their agents must themselveß unpack, put together, and arrange (hem.-1« the case of foreign and colonial productions, as they must be necessarily unpacked, for n considerable _ time before they are finally arranged for exhibition, it is suggested that the consignees or agents should be authorised to provide proper temporary coverings, such as glazed calico, to protect the articles from dust, and in the case of machinery and polished goods to make the requisite arrangements for keeping the articles from rust. 172. The officers of the exhibition in charge of each division will cause all packages properly certified as empty to be arranged in places hereafter to be determined upon. 173. All packing cases, &c, must be remorsd by exhibitors or their agents as soon as they r«ceive notice from the Commissioners to do so. 174. All packing cases not removed within three days after notice, will be sold, and the proceeds applied to the funds of the cxhibitioa.

175. Exhibitors Intending to introduce foreign articles upon which duty has been paid, with the view of exhibiting: them amongst the goods of the country of which they are the produce or manu facture, must have a ticket attached to each, with the words "Duty Paid," thereon; and to prevent difficulty in their delivery at the close ot the exhibition, they should »c brought under the notice of the officer of Customs at tha time they are brought in. NEW ZEALAND EXHIBITION, 1865. MEMORANDUM OF THH B¥TIBB O* LOCAL OOMM1TTBB« IN MaT ST3ALAND AMD A«BMTfI IN OTHER -COUNTRIES. I—To act as the channel of communication between Exhibitors and the Commissioners, and to give publicity in their districts to such information as may bt useful to intending Exhibitors and others interested m the Exhibition. 11. To encourage, by every means in their power, the production ot articles suited for JSxni--1 lII To examine the lists of proposed exhibitors in order to see that they fairly represent the industries of the Province (or country); and that the principal producers appear ia them. jy To enter into communication witn sucn persons as it may be desirable should exhibit, but who have not sent any demand for space, mtn the view of urging them to do so at an early date, and to furnish proper forms of application for this purpose, which will be supplied by her Majesty s Commissioners. .... .»t. *~ J V.—To examine the list of applicants with the view of limiting the demands of those exhibitors who may have formed extravagant ideas ol the worth ot their goods and of the space they should occupy. , VI —is cases where applicants for space have made demands under more than one class to ascertain th« exact amount ol space they will require in each class. . , VII. At & somewhat later date to superintend, in accordance with auch general regulations as may be laid down, the selection or rejection ot articles proposed for exhibition. Vlll.—To take such steps as may appear expedient for tha purpose of encouraging a desire to Vi9itSe^D^"~6. 70, 100,102,103.