THE EXHIBITION.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13356, 21 December 1906, Page 3

THE EXHIBITION.

DR S'CIEWARZBACH'.S. IMFRES- -

SIONS,

Dr. SchwarTJbnch, n visitor from Europe, arid a former- resident of Sydney, who is not unknown in New Plymouth, dm an interview with am Otago Daily Times, reporter, said the Inhibition, as v aqolonial enterprise is praiseworthy, as an -^agio-colonial enterprise it is creditable, but: as an Sonternational enterprise it is disappointing. Asked as *o the most interesting item/in the whole show he said. : " The proper study of man is maSi/ ' and to 'many, (no doubt, £he people themselves, their- views and' comments, favlurable and otherwise, are at Wast as interesting' as the dead objects nI/i be vg-azed 1 ati--'especially if the people are watched in " Wonderland " anil in its neig.MJom'hood, But ' thfl item which, in any opinion, is most, attractive, but could have been made more of ,' is coimect?ed with the presence *of the! Maoris, the Cook l«?laiv.'.o<rs, and t!w» Indians. If [ .toad lia'd a voice in. formulating' the ' adlveme I slould have raised' a. rvpocc r vp0cc ;'in, .aidYoOating 1 the in-tro-durtion^ as . complete as procurable ->f customs', habit's, \vork — in short, of native l.'.fe — of the diftcraiit South Son, Island groups. 1 qertiamly- shou'-d n."t have been satisfied 1 to show the natives at play,, how- tlvpy sing -anti dance, • but would' hove ,tr»K>d to show tiht'm, in sonve , measure, at thrir work as. well.- Something, absolutely, novel might, -thus have , been, exhibited— something which ,np< other world's exlifcbit'Lon, no matter where, has been a^lo itv> x 'provid€'. Weekly popular Occturps would have enfoanml the dnterest ami education<al value.iVnthropological JvJiowUxlgo would in this' manner, havo become populariscid, and thi^ Kxhihit'ion- <; would havo/-i«civas«l its attnaction^ ' ' . •. Of tl>c jwo.Ml>iiJon regnlationo, he *aJd':-^ a Frora a Co4»m<ipolitai». pohH of >.viev\>' 1 -ali-o - r-cjjivt : il:v* 'npoc»? : ty ' WijVh ,s-<r.rm-«? to h a vn ' prevail* vl* wk'h people in authrtrity to proclaim the i proiiibitiioli I'aw 'in* f-h'.» do'inatre of the i lSxhihit/ion fyroTir^h. ' Wiat is ta'<rxi « more or lnw as a matter of course; in i x 2/ealan"l is a puzzle, to foreign- 1 ers; Of eonrs? every nation mako« la>vs accord nvg- to rl-'- fancy ; but that < a broad-miadcd, crier^ < ?"tie,'-fr<- i e- people ' should hav^> ,sanc.i:c>nfjd laws which not only interfere severely with natural personal JiJ^rtx. .^but, flaypur of a l house of feofrcc^Fon' or refoitnatoiy. all- , pears to l>e a piffle 1 ' which ', T have m> doulyt/ Svill" be f*aiisfaO'to*ily aolv-ed at f fomis'titture -~flat& : 'hy -^h^ same ppopV. t T.'aws 'in regard "to forced a-'Tstincnc-^, ( the 10 p.tn f . limit law, the prevention t to offer your friend a glaf^s of wino on a Sunday should you live at a ho- { tel, the heavy .fine. for playir.g oven a » harmle-SR g-ame. of cards, except in y the secrecy pi voulv own house — them* t and sin^ilar restrictions, certainly in- ~\ terfere, diteeiry <A* '-inllircStly, .with S tlvo comfort and .*<»rw of faiincfs of i mamy who have come to Ne-w Zealand . J on accotmti of the nalfcmal fair. Al?o, £ the closing of that fair on .Sunday I* iiuv»iiipi*fi-hen{silj3o to a resident of thi? li.uropean C()n'<in?:it, because/ Ru'navs' on -the Continent ,ar\-» dtws of c iv.creaUon as .Vvcll as of r?st. How aUrac.tjVc-^l may say how fascinat- . ing — the bt-autifnl extensive- lawn in front the nniirt building would 1.-c made on a' Sunday alttrn.^on if. ; it wprr* in' Eiirope T shall not at- c tempt to' describe. The ways of" ono ( country are not the ways o1?o 1 ? a'nothei ;. [ Then, .he went on to say, what is thp c use of having the best orchestra in Austi-alasia oii tire spot' H music is nob t populjar^eid ?■ .C«ood music is known to develop, 'the b'ftst ethical properties ] in mankind, and should it not lie the j aim to ilevelop noble rpialities in everyone. The PurHan spirit showa f itself in more than .one waj", and af- 1 tects tho' fehibition indiroctly. For I curiosity's sake, I fhall here repeat i one question which was put to me by 1 an over-anxious mother. "Ts H true" * are wanted to know, "thai the Fiji- ; ans are going , to dance in the Exhibition o rounds with their legs naked •? £ Tf so,' it will be impossible form* 1 to ' aillow my daugh'UM-s to efo there.'' T Wastrncfl to assure .the lady -that', in my ! an, the tl^tniaeirs "wowlid' ihavte their bodies carefully covrrrd from chin to toe. ■ ' •