FRANCISCO BRITISH EXHIBITION.

Otago Witness, Issue 2856, 9 December 1908, Page 13

FRANCI SCO BRITISH EXHIBITION.

SOME NEW ZEALAND TRIUMPHS. STAPLE INDUSTRIES NEGLECTED. (From Omt Owk Cobbespondznt.) LONDON, October 16. The official list of awards at the FrancoBritish Exhibition, which was published yesterday, is stated to be complete, but several classes in which New Zealanders are interested do not appear to have been judged. New Zealanders generally will regret that in eevaral v of our staple industries the exhibits were not made sufficiently convincing to 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 is not there. In animal food products it is the same. In non-edible agricultural products and appliances New Zealand takes the diploma of honour, while the grand prize goes to several of our rivals. The 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 are relegated to the fourth class, and in leather and skin to the third. In woollen manufactures, 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 the 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 New Zealand could not have been placed alongside pur strongest rivals in such classes as preserved meats. THE LIST. The following is the New Zealand list (which will probably be supplemented later) .— Education. — Grand prize, Department of Education. Photography. — Grand prize, Government exhibit ; gold medal, Schmidt Studios. - Books, Newspapers, Etc.— Grand prize, Government exhibit Public Works.— Grand prize, Railway Department. Railway and Plant.— Grand prize, Railway Department. Materials and Plant used in the Mercantile Marine.— Diploma of Honour, New Zealand Shipping Company. Rural Cultivation.— Diploma of Honour, Government exhibit. Vegetable Food. Products.— Grand prize, G. G. Stead and Co. ; gold medal, H. D. Vavasour (Marlborough. barley). Ai.iinal Food Products.— Silver medal, J. Nathan ami Co. (Wellington), dried milk. Non-edible Agricultural Products and Appliances.— Diploma of honour, Government exhibit; gold model, Gear Meat Company, itUseful Insects — Grand prize, Government exhibit. Forest Products. — Grand prize, Government exhibit; diploma of honour, Government exhibit; gold medal, Taupo Totara Timber Company. Producta of Hunting and Shooting. — Grand prize, Government exhibit ; gold medal, T E. Danme. Biscuite. — Gold medal, Aulesbrook and Co. Preserved Meats, etc. — Gold modal Chrdstchurch Meat Company; silver medal, Gear Meat Company, Gisborne Sheep Faiwneirs' Frozen Meat Company, Wangarmi Meat Freezing Company, Banks Peninsula Company, Frimlcy, Canning, Company, Hokianga Co-operative Coini pany; honourable mention, Irvine and ! Stevenson. Sugar and Confectionery. — Grand prfee, Colonial Sugar Refining Company; gold medal, 8. KLrkpatrick, Colonial Sugar Renaming Company. Wines.— Gold medal, Government exhibit, Te Mata Vineyard. Mineral Waters. — Silver medal, Wairongoa, Thomson and Co. ; honourable mention, Government 'exhibit. Mincß and Quarries. — Grand prize, Government exhibit. Furniture, etc. — Gold medail, Government I exhibit; silver medal, J. Whinray (Gisborne). Applianoes used in Making Wearing Apparel. — Gold medal, Miss Roberts. Machinery Employed in Spinning and Weaving Thread and Fabric* of Flax, Hemp, etc. — Gold medal, Dona.ghy Rope and Twine Company; silver medal, William Ross and Co., J. Maddern and Co. Yarns and Fabrics. — Grand prize, Wellington Woollen. Manufacturing Company, Moagiel Woollen Factory Company, Kaiapoi Woollen Manufacturing Company. Applied Chemistry. — Silver medal, New Zea- ■ land Candle Company. Leather and Skins. — Gold medal, M. Hallenstetn and 00. Brush -making. Pipes, eto. — Honourable mention, Reidvand Reid. Workmen's Dwellings. — Gold medal, Government exhibit. Provident Institutions. — Grand prize, Registry of Friendly Societies. Hygiene. — Diploma of honour, Government exhibit-.

i "Airmanship" is a new additipn to the language. It should be a. useful word, ana ie quite idiomatic.