THE EXHIBITION.

Waikato Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8052, 8 November 1906, Page 2

THE EXHIBITION.

♦ (By Tblkokahi—Pkess Association.) OHRIBTOHURCH, Last Night. The attendance at the this morning was limited but in. creased in the afternoon. The agricultural sbow and other attractions helped to reduce the usual number of visitors. The Premier and Lady Ward, and the Hons. J. McGoHaa and Geo. Povrlds visited the South Australian Court to-day, and were received by Commissioner Scott, who presented Lady Ward with a specimen of a small tortoise found in the northern territory. *" THE WAIKATO COURT. The Christchurch Press, dealing with the Waikato Court, says . Waikato people who have seen their district court are very much disappointed. Some of them think that if there was to be no better display than the collection of photographs, soap and sundries on view at the opening, Waikato had better have left the Exhibition alone. But the fact is that a very large proportion of the goods are still on the rails, and a glance a't Mr Chatfield's list shows that some fine exhibits are expected. When they are unpacked, it will be time enough to consider the verdict. A few were brought into the building on Saturday, including models of the Maori canoes used at the great Ngarua>ahia regatta. In the Waikato Court are two photographs of Mr Ernest C. Moon, a man who, in spite of great physical disadvantages, is a useful member of society. He cinoot stand upright. He is worse than lame, for he has to to travel about in a sort of Bath chair pushed by a friend or attendant. When he alights from it, he cannot even hobble, but can only sit down on the floor and shuffle himself along. His hands, too, are of very little use'. And yet he makes furniture, cultivates a garden, paints pictures, runs a store, keeps a post-office and writes up the events of the countryside for a couple of newspapers. He does most of these things with bis feet. One of the portraits in the Exhibition shows him executing a water-colour sketch in this manner, and on the mount is a painting of flowers, which is hit handiwork—if the term is allowable.