FRANCO-BRITISH EXHIBITION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14380, 25 November 1908, Page 5

FRANCO-BRITISH EXHIBITION

SOME NEW ZEALAND TRIUMPHS. , staple indus™es Neglected. (F»oh Otra Own Correspondent.) LONDON, October. 15. j The official list of awards at the Franco- [ British Exhibition, which was published yesterday, is stated to l>c complete, but soveral classes in • which Now Zealanders are interested do not appear to have been judged. Now Zealanders generally will regret; that in several of our staple industries tho exhibits were not made sufficiently convincing lo secure first honours from or with the States which are our competitors. In vegetable food products five Australian States score the grand prize; New Zealand as a State h not there. In animal food products it is the same: In non-cdiblo agricultural products and appliances New Zealand takes the _ diploma of honour, while the grand prize goes to several of our rivals. Tho three' highest class prizes for preserved meats go to .our rivals, New Zealand companies lagging wearily in the fourth and fifth classes.. In rope we arc relegated to the foin-lh class, and in leather and skin to the thind. ' In woollen however; three- New Zealand companies stand conspicuous in the grand prize list. In workers'- dwellings we are defeated by the Co-operative .Tenants' Housing Council; in "Movements for tho welfare of the people" we are unheard of; but in "Provident institutions" the ■Government of New Zealand wins the grand prize. Nobody will believe that Now Zealand could not have beer placed alongside our strongest rivals in such classes as proserved meats. THE LIST. ! The following is the New Zealand list (which will probably be supplemented later):- \ Education.—Grand Iprize, 'Department of Education. ' Photography.—Grand prize, Government exhibit; gold medal, Schmidt Studios. Books, Newspapers, Etc.—Grand prize, 'Government ekhibit. , -,-...• Public Works.—Grand prize, Eailway, Department. Railway and Tramway Plant-.—Grand prize, Railway Department; Materiids and Plant used' in the Mercantile Marine.—Diploma Honour, New Zealand Shipping Company. ,- , Rural Cultivation—Diploma of Honour, Government exhibit. v Vegetable Food Products.— Grand prize, G. G. Stead and Co.'; gold, medal, H. D. Vavasour (Marlborough, barley). At.-ima-l Food Products.—Silver medal,' J. Nathan and Co. (Wellington), dried milk. , Non-edible- Agricultural Products and Appliances. V-Diploma of honour, Government exhibit; gold medal, Gear Meat' Company. , , Useful Insects.—Grand prize, Government exhibit. ! Forest Products.—Grand prize, Government exhibit; diploma of honour, Government exhibit; gold medal, Ta-u-po Totara Timber Company. Products of Hunting and Shooting.—Grand prize, Government exhibit; gold medal,' T., E. Donme. Biscuits.—Gold modal, Aulcsbrook and Co. \ Preserved 1 Meats, etc.—Gold modal OhrastohuTch Meat 'Company; silver medal, Gear Meat; Company, Gisborns Sheep Farmers' Frozen Meat Company, Wanganui Meat Freezing Company!' Banks I'cninsula Company, Friraleyl .Canning, Company, Hokianga, Co-operative .Company; honourable mention, Irvine.and Stevenson. Sugar and Confectionery.—Grand prize, Colonial Sugar Refining Company; gold medal, ■ S. Kirkpatrick, Colonial Sugar Refiinwg Company. Wines—Gold modal, Government exhibit, Te Mata VineyaTcl. ! Mineral Waters.—Silver medal,. Wairongoa,' Thomt-on and Co.; honourablei mention, Government exhibit. Mines and Grand prize, Government exhibit. \ Furniture, etc.—Gold medal, Govemmeait exhibit; silver medal, J. Whinray (Gisborne). Appliances used in Making Wearing Apparel.— Gold medal, Mies Roberts, r Machinery Employed in Spinning a-nd Weaving Thread and Fabrics of Flax, Hemp, eta-Gold medal, Donaghy Ropo and Twine Company; silver medal, William Ross and Co., J. Maddem and Co. ' larns .-rod-Fabrics.—Grand prize; Wellington 'Woollen Manufacturing. Company,' . Mosgiel Woollen Factory Company, Kaiapoi Woollen Manufacturing Company. Applied Chemistry.—Silver medal, Now Zealand Candle Company. Leather and Skins-Cold medal, M.'Hal-' lenstebn and Co. ■ ' .. Bi-ush-making, Pipes, eta-Honourable mention, Rcid andlleid. .. Workmen's Dwellings.-Gold medal, Govcrnment exhibit. ' . . Provident Institutions. -.' Grand prize, Kegist-ry of Friendly Societies.' xhTr DlPlolna ° f hOIIOIU '' Government '