CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. CapeofCood

This was a collective exhibit, of which the expense was entirely borne by the Govern-
ment, which purchased many of the articles and directed their ultimate presentation to
public institutions in the United States. Those belonging to individual exhibitors were
insured, transported, and installed at the cost of the local committee.
NEW SOUTH WALES. n.w south

Wales.
The Colonial Government bore the entire expense of shipment, insurance, railway freight,

and other charges involved in collecting, forwarding, arranging, and returning the exhibits

in its department, at a cost of about $40,000. The mining department of the Government

displayed geological and mineralogical specimens; the printing department, books and

bindings; the educational, a series of reports; and the survey department, maps of the

colony.
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Participation
by Fordgn
Governments.
South
Australia.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
The Commission was granted by the Government the sum of $17,500 for the preparations
for the Exhibition ; and the Commissioners provided for the packing, freight, charge**, and
final disposal of exhibits, in accordance with the desire of exhibitors. The Government
also prepared and published, with especial reference to the Exhibition, a publication
entitled South Australia, Us History, Resources, and Productions, The Surveyor-General,
the Adelaide Museum, the Botanic Gardens, and the Commission itself supplied objects
and photographs representing the resources of the country. Most of the articles shown,
however, were sent by individual exhibitors.
Tasmania.
TASMANIA.
The Government defrayed the expense of the forwarding, maintenance, and return of
all individual exhibits. It was represented by parliamentary reports, maps, statistics, and
specimens of natural products; while the Tasmanian Salmon Commission made a fine
display of fish, and the corporations of Hobart Town and Lancaster showed photographic
views of those cities.
Victoria.
VICTORIA.
