OPENING OF THE N.Z. INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3341, 17 December 1883, Page 2

OPENING OF THE N.Z. INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION.

[By Telegraph.] Christchurch, Dec.',!?. The N. Z. Industrial Exhibition was formally opened this morning. The Mayor, members of the City Council, and principal visitors assembled at the Council Chambers and drove to the Exhibition, where they were received by the committee of management, and conducted to the platform in the art gallery. The organ played a march. The building was crowded, and among those on the platform were the mayor and members of the city and suburban Town Councils. The Hon. W. Rolleston, Minister of Lands, Hon. E. Mitchelson, Minister for Public Works, the Primate, Messrs Vincent Pyke, Fish, Thomson, Wright, Ivess, White, Allwright, and O’Callaghan, M.H.R.s, the Hons. Richardson, Peacock, Deßenzie, Brett, Gresson, Mr Holland, president of the Industrial Association delivered an address requestthe Mayor to open the exhibition, the Mayor replied and declared the exhibition open, three cheers being given, the National Anthem being played on the organ. The Mayor and party then made a tour of the exhibition. The covered space for the exhibits amounts to 30,000 square feet, and the uncovered space for machinery 25,000 square feet. The exhibition is exceedingly good, all parts of New Zealand being well represented.