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

Otago Daily Times, Issue 782, 20 June 1864, Page 8

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

Admission of Persons.

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

[126-135.] 136. Passes and day tickets must be shown on entering and leaving, and whenever demanded, within the building-. 137. Paases 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 parson to whom it was originally issued from obtaiuing another admission.

[138-141.] 142. The doorkeepers will be held 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 uerson 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 of 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 sire or kind whatever out of the building before it has been opened and examined.

146. All persons using tow or cotton waste must provide slate or metal boxes for containing the refuse. 149. Smoking is strict'y prohibited. No dogs will be admitted.

148. Tke introduction of hicifer 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. 15U. 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 massing New Zealand 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 goods. 154. Goods and machinery will he received during such hours only as may from time to time be fixed. 155. No person hut the carman will be allowed to enter with a waggon, and he will njt 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 sppointed to superintend the unloading and transporting of the articles to their respective places, and the following , regulations will be observed in the reception and the distribution of goods : — 1. Every package on its delivery into the building to be entered in a register, with the name and address of the lender: the class to which it Belongs, and whether received in goo'l 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 soou as possible after their reception into the building. 4. Packages accidentally delivered cr received at the wrong places, or from 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 during1 the day will be entered in a book, containing the names of the exhibitors, alphabetically arranged, to be made up every evening. 158. Each division will have a superintendent and requisite attendant. t

[159-160.]

161. All packing cases, &c, must be removed by the exhibitors, as soon as they receive orders from the Commissioners to do so. Packing cases not remove'! within three days after notice, will be sold and the proceeds applied to the funds ot the exhibition. ;

Mode op Passing Foreign and Colonial

GOODH INTO THE BtJILDING.

162, The receipt of all foreign and colonial articles will be subject to the control of tho officers of the Customs, and in case any difficulty should arise, application is to be made to the senior Customs officer of the building.

163. The officers of the Customs and their servants will be provided with passes, and will be privileged to enter all portions of the building in which they may have business. ]1640 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 separately, 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 w ill be unloaded in rotation by the officers of the exhibition, when rotation number* 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: tothatdivision, that the Customs' rotation number is marked thereon, and the goods are then properly stored within it. When the articles of each country are deposited ■within the space assigrif d to them, the exhibitors or their agents must themselves unpack, put. together, and arrange them. In the case of foreign and colonial productions, as they must be necessarily unpacked for a 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, arid in the case of machinery and polished goods to make the requisite arrangements lor 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 hereatter to be determined upon. 173. All packing cases ; &c, must be removed by exhibitors or their agents as soon as they receive notice from the Commissioners to do so.

174. All packing cases not removed within three days after notice, will be sold, and the pro« eeeds applied to the funds of the exhibition.

175. Exhibitor* intending to introduce foreign faftisles 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 i aid," thereon; and to prevent difficulty in their deiivery at the closa of the exhibition, they should be brought under the notice of the officer of Customs at the tima they are brought in. NfcW ZEALAND EXHIBITION, 1865. MBMORA.NDUH OF THB DUTIES 0* LOCAL 00MMITTEBS IN NiiW ZEALAND AMD AGENTS IN OTHER COUNTRIES.

I —To act as the channel of communication between Exhibitors and the Commissionersj and to giva publicity in their districts to such information aa may be useful to intending Exhibitors and others interested in the Exhibition.

11. To encourage, by every means in their power, the production of articles suited for Exhibition.

111. To examine the lists of proposed exhibitors in order to see that they fairly represent ths industries of the Province (or country); and that the principal producers appear in them. IV.—To enter into communication with such persons as it may be desirable should exhibit, but who have not sent any demand for space, with the view of urging them to do so at an early date, and to furnish proper forms of application for this purpose, 'dhich will be supplied by her Majesty's Commissioners. V.—To examine the list of applicanti with the view of limiting the demands of those exhibitors who may have formed extravagant ideas ot the worth ol their goods and of the space they should occupy. Vl.—la cases where applicants for space have made demands under more than one class to ascertain the exact amount ot space they will require in each class. VII. At a somewhat later date to superintend, in accordance with such general regulations as may be laid down, the selection or rejection of article* proposed for exhibition. VIII.—To take such steps as may appear expedient for the purpose of encouraging a desire to visit the exhibition. See "Decisions"—6, 70, 100,102,103.