INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION AND SALE OF WORK.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9568, 26 October 1892, Page 4

INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION AND SALE OF WORK.

An industrial exhibition and sale of work was opened in St. Paul's Schoolroom, Stuart street, last night, in aid of the fund for the extinction of the debt ou the Sunday School building. In opening the exhibition, Mr Kempthorne stated that the debt on the building now amounted to L 250, and that L2O per anmim was also payable for interest. The exhibition was part of a scheme devised by the Sunday school teachers to wipe off the debt on the building, and the whole of the articles for exhibition were made by the teachers, the school children, and their frienda. It should be stated, although Mr Kempthorne did not mention the fact, that the teachers arc taking up a monthly collection in small sums amongst the parishioners for the same object as the exhibition; and they have at present LSO banked, which they hope will.be largely augmented by the funds obtained from the exhibition now being held in the schoolroom in Stuart street.

The chief feature of the exhibition is what is designated the " exhibition stall," which contains articles of various kinds, mostly made by the children. Among the exhibits are a bracket of macrame work, made by a boy 13 years of age; cork and cone picture frames; a basket of beautiful artifical flowers, made of paper by a young woman ; a yacht, made by a boy of It; a bracket of satin and cardboard, with a floral design nicely painted by hand; a bracket of crewel work; dolls of different sorts and sizes nicely dressed by school children; millinery, also made by children; and numerous articles of woolwork,' <fee. The bulk of the things at this stall arc entered for competition as well as for exhibition.

The stall which ranks next to the one just mentioned is the sale stall, at which there are displayed a large quantity of children's clothing (very, uicely made), woollen slippers, doyleys, wall-pockets, cushions, dolls, &a. Then there are a fernery and flower stall, a lolly stall, a fish pond, a Christmas tree, a shooting gallery, and a comic art gallery; besides a fret machine at work, and a galvanic battery. There is also a refreshment room, containing, in addition to the good things intended to satisfy the material wants of visitors to the exhibition, a number of cookery exhibits sent in by children for competition. The.walls of the schoolroom, it should be stated, are adorned with paintings and photographs—the former being, for the niost part, lent by teachers connected with, the school. The Kaikorai Baud were in attendance last night, and played a number of selections during the evening. To-night the exhibition will be open again, when a string band, under the conductorship of Mr G. K. West,, will afford some eatertainment to visitors. '