EXHIBITION NOTES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1245, 26 February 1914, Page 40

EXHIBITION NOTES.

In the year 1915, on the shores of the Golden Gate, will take place one of the world’s wonders —the Panama Exposition. Passengers on ships entering San Francisco Harbour now behold the frames of the huge exhib't.on palaces, which are grouped about vast interior courts, and - present, from afar, a glorious group. The Lui dings are the loft est exhibition s. ever erected, ris'ng to heights of one hundred and ninety, two Hundred and seventy, three hundred and fifty, and four hundred and thirty ieet. The grouping gives the effect of a vast Oriental city, with its great towers, domes and m'narets. The grounds lie pare.lei with the harbour on the north for almost three miles. On the south, east and west they are surrounded by towering hil.s of varying contours. The New Zealander who, in 1915, strolls through the Wonder City by the Golden Gate and loiters adown the shady paths admiring the tree ferns will not b;e lonesome, for the tree ferns (pungas) above his head will be compatriots, natives of his own fair land. Over twelve months ago a large nrm of seedsmen in Dunedin forwarded two consignments of tree ferns and hundreds of thousands of rare trees, palms and shrubs from every portion of the world are being brought to the site of the PanamaPaciiic International Exhibition at San Francisco, where the n;a,t. will celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal. The grounds surrounding the huge exhibit palaces will be transformed into a semi-para-oise by the lavish use of ornamental shrubs and Howers. Vast banks of flowers will be kept always in bloom. Upon the grounds will be banana 1 Lints from Central America, tree ferns from Australia, rare tulips from Ho.land, and thousands of rhododendrons from England.