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The provincial districts and subdistricts represented by courts in the Exhibition
Building were-Auckland (with Waikato), Taranaki, Hawke's Bay, Manawatu (in Wel-
lington Provincial District), Nelson, Marlborough, Westland, North Canterbury, South
Canterbq (including ,4shburfon and Timaru), and ,Southland. There were also New
Zealand's oceauic poswsions, the Cook and other Islands. Each court was arranged by
a local committee, who devoted much labour and trouble to the obtaining of exhibits, on
loan and otherwise, and whose efforts went a long way towards making the Exhibition
an attractive as well as an educational exposition of the Dominion's raw ~nateriaI and
its manufactured goods. In spite of sundry shorteomhgs -such as have and @
dl be indicated, the provincial courts were in the mass well representative of New
Zealand's present sources of wealth and its obvious capacity for enorl~loudy hreashq
that wealth in the quickly coming pears.
AUCKL.~ Pmm,vrn*L CO~T.
The Auckland Provincial District? with its area of nearly 14,00,000 acres, its total
length of 365 des from the North Gape to the 39th padel, south of Lake Taup, and
its extreme width of about 180 miles, afforded opportunity for an exceedingly varied
exhibition of raw InateriaLq products, and manufactures. Naturally, the first thing
the visitor acquainted with Aucklsnd expected to see exemplified was the picturesque
aspect of this northern province, so
full of glowing warmth and colour
and strange sights. In this particular
there was s good deal. to
hold the eye, but one looked for
more horn this favoured part of
?daori Land, so a-ell endowed by
nature over all its length; A beautifd
and wonderful land, from its
surf-beaten Land's End where the
Xaori "Spirits' Leap," Te Rerenga-
\teairua, dips into the kelp-strew
sea, down through the delightful
.. . Sorth Auckland Peninsula of balnnairs
and subtropical hits, of omq;g01-e~
and vineries ; land of a thousand
n-hite-beached ba-s, and bays
nithill bays, rocky coasts where
whales are chased by the half-caste
boat-&ws ; of long tidal rivers.
mangos-e-fringed, flecked with the
sails of the timber-scons and ali~e
with the hum of &at saw-mills;
THE MAIZE TBOP~, AFC~L~ND Corn. the land of the ka& ; down to the
Hauralii's many-islanded seas and
the jumbled and scarred golden hills of the Commandel, and Thames? and Ohinmuri :
.wuth\rards through the farms of the Wailiata and the once " tapu" Roheptae, where
the hem of the New Romance, the pioneer with his we and his plough, is breaking in
the land ; down through the fuming Gepezland and on to Tap's blue inland &a, that
lies in the Island-heart Ue a huge tank of sapphire, with the Olympic mountain-trio of
the Tongnrim National Park mounting guard over its southern shores. Such infinite
variety, topographic, mineral, vegetable, Auch-land Province has to show; but one,