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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 85

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One of the best and most attractive features of the exhibition is Mr. A. J. White's display of furniture. There is no need to specify the various article?, which give evideuce of work-manship and taste of a very high order. The Kaiapoi Woollen Company, ever alive to the advantages of judicious advertising, have a button-hole machine, and a manufacturer's sewing machine, in operation, under the care of two of their employees. Appropriately enough, Miss Vervall's exhibits of corsets and tastefully trimmed pinafores are placed next to the table at which Mrs. J, R. Davidson and a young pupil illustrate practically the process of making Honiton lace. A couple of frames containing specimens of this lady's skill are desorving of high praise. The manufacture of cardboard boxes at the factory of Mr. J, Forrest is illustrated by two young ladies at an adjoining table, which bears a tastefully-arranged trophy of the boxes made by Mr Forrest. A case of statuettes, the work of Mr. W. L. Smith, will well repay inspection. The figures—copies of well-known statues—are executed with no small degree of artistic skill. In front of the case is a collection of fine specimens of turning in wood and bone, sent by Mr. W. Graham, of Lyttelton, whose lathe was one of the at tractions at the last Christchurch Industrial Exhibition.