DECISIONS SPECIALLY APPLICABLE TO SECTION IV.-FINE ARTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 809, 25 July 1864, Page 8

DECISIONS SPECIALLY APPLICABLE TO SECTION IV.-FINE ARTS.

116, It is cot proposed to award prizes in this Section. Admission of Visitobs. [111—122.] •"■•/' ! 123. The Commissioners have adopted the following regulations with respect to the admission of visitors to the exhibition: — t - (a) 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 fox "Visitors. The regulations necessary fo preventing

1 obstructions at the entrance will be issued prior to opening. (d) Admission to the exhibition will be given only to ilie owners of season tickets, and to visitors paying at the doors. Season Tickets. \f) Season tickets, price two guine.'.s, will entitle the owner t"> ndrais.-ion nt the opening, and all other ceremonials, as well as at all times when the building is open to the public. (g) Season tickets must be siffned before presentation. The owners must produce them, and write their names in a book at the door each, time they enter the ' building1. (ft) "Season tickets are not transferable, and if presented by any other person? than the registered owners will be forfeited, and the names of the offenders will be published. If Jost, they will not be replaced, unless in special cases, sanctioned by the Commissioners. Prices of 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. (yfc) Prom 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 0 f AKTICLES DURING THE AKRANGEMENT OF THE EXHIBITION',1 ">- ; Admission of Persons. [124.] * ■■-•-.■■ 125. No person whatever will be admitted unless he is the bearer of a pass or day ticket. [126-135.1 .-■" . " , 136. Passes and day tickets must be shown on entering and leaving, and whenever demanded, within the building1. 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 obtaiuing another admission. [138-141,1 142. 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 person within it. 144. Every person not properly authorised found in the building or handling or conveying or removingl any package or article from one part oi the building ta another will be liable to be given into custody. 145. No person will be allowed to carry any bundle or parcel of any size or kind whatever out of the building before it has been opened and I 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. The 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. 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 be received during such hours only as may from time to time be fixed. 155. 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 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 sender: the class to which it belongs, and whether received in good condition or damaged. ; 2. A rotation number to be marked distinctly1 on each package, the same number to be entered against the sender^ name in the '■ register. ! 8. All packages to be removed from the land- ■ ing 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 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 during the day will bo 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. . [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 removed within three days after notice, will be sold and the proceeds applied to the funds or the'exhibition; - Mode of Passing Foreign and Colonial Goods into the Building.. 162. The receipt of all foreign and colonial articles will be subject to the control of the officers of the Customs, and in case any difficulty shuuld 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 enfer all portions of the building in which they may have business. 1164.] .■ 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 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 stored within; it. When the articles of each country are deposited within the space assigned to them, the exhibitors or their agents must themselves unpack, puttogether, and arrange them. I-n the case of foreign and colonial productions, as they must be necessarily unpfc£ked 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, and in the case of machinery and polished -poods 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 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. Exhibitors intending to introduce foreign articles upon which duty has b23n paid, v/ith the view of exhibitine: them among stthe goods of the country of which they are the produce or manu factuve, must have a ticket attached to each, with the words ••• Duty Paid,1' thereon ; and to ( prevent difficulty in their delivery at the close of the exhibition, they should be brought under the notice of the officer of Customs at the time they are brought in. N>-W ZEALAND EXHIBITION', 1865. MEMORANDUM OF THE BUT Ia a OP LOCAL COMMITTEES in N.SW Zealand and agents 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 way be useful to intending Exhibitors and others interested in the Exhibition. 11. To encourage, by every means in thenpower, the production ot articles suited for Exhibition. IT r. To examine the lists of proposed exhibitors in order to see that they fairly represent tlia 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, I and to furnish proper forms of application for this purpose, which will be supplied by her Majesty's Commissioners. V.—To examine the list of applicants with the view of limiting the demands of those exhibitors who may have formed extravagant ideas ot the worth ot their goods and of"the space they should occupy. I VI. —in cases where applicants for space have made demands under more than one class to ascertain the exact amount 01 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 rejaction of articles 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.