GRAND INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION.

Otago Witness, Issue 2325, 22 September 1898, Page 7

GRAND INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION.

The schedule issued in connection with the industrial exhibition to be held in the Agricultural Hall, under the auspices of the Otago Sunday School Union, on show week indicates that about £100 will be given in prizes. The competitions are open to all teachers and scholars, who are divided into seven grades, so that as respects age, etc., all shall be on something like a footing of equality. In the industrial section prizes are offered for the best specimens of cabinet work, carving, modelling, leather, cork, fret, and tin work, the best use of waste material, boat-making and book-binding, irodel of steam engine, the most ingenious contrivances, etc. The section for collections should excite keen competition. Prizes are offered for collections ranging from buttons, birds' eggß, flowers, marbles, tops, postage stamps, shells, ferns, and mosses to New Zealand woods and grasses. In the painting, writing, and mapping section prizes are offered for the be3t exercise, copy, and drawing books, plain and coloured maps, illuminated, ornamental, and plain writing, architectural and geometrical drawings, and landscapes and portraits. There is a section for photography, k in which there are six classes divided into five grades. Tho section for plants and flowers

is intended for children under 15 years oi age, but should prove interesting. The classes in the needlework section are numerous, and well arranged, and in addition to the cash prizes silver medals -will be given for the bes^ collections of fancy and plain sewing. The cookery section will probably excite keene^r interest in the domestic circle when the exhfc bition is actually open than almost any others and every mother -will be anxious that her daughters may prove that they are acquiring the art of cooking. There are doll and pincushion sections, and contests of various kinds,* from boot-blacking and knife-cleaning to recitations aud choir-singing. The Sunday school ciioir contest is causing quite a stir, and numerous entries are expected. The musical contents aro likely to prove a very attractive feature of the exhibition, and from the run there lias been on the music very large entries are a certainty. The kindergarten section will bo of interest if the schools compete, as no doubt they will. The drill competitions promise to bo quite a feature of the exhibition. In the literary section competition is invited for an original hymn, and there are five classes for essays. It is intended to awara a gold medal for. the exhibit deemed to be th«> best in the exhibition, and a special prize will be given to the school obtaining th%highes^ percentago of marks in proportion to the number of scholars on the roll. From the particulars given it will be scon that tho exhibition is likely to assume largo proportions, and il will form a strong attraction to visitor* in town for the show week.