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NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1882. MESSRS JOUBERTAND TWOPENY, PROMOTERS. OFFICIAL "PROGRAMME. IN 1878 the population of New Zealand numbered 414,000. In 1881 it had in- creased to 534,250, and this, although the total area of the islands is only 99,( 6 ) square miles, or about th*t of Great Britain and Ireland, Hence, it has been thought desir- able to invito the Manufacturers of Europe, America, and Australia, as well as of New Zealand itself, to assist in holding in CHRISTCHUHCH-as the most centrally situated city — an INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF ARTS AND INDUSTRIES. REGULATIONS. 1. Applications for space, with full par- ticulars of tho intended exhibit, can bomdao at once at tho office of tho undersigned, and will be received up till the Ist February, 1882 2. Tho ordinary chaige for space will bo two shillings for each of tho first twenty iquaro feet, and ono shilling for every addi- tional !>quaro foot ; but exhibitors desiring a frontage to tho Main Avonue for their cases can oMain it on payment of an additional five shillings per foot of bucli frontage, irrea- pectivo of depth. A passage of from two to three feet will bo left round each caso when desired, and exhibitors desirous of having spaces against tho wall should mention the fact at the time of application. Spooial ar- rangements for the purchase at five guineas a piece of bays, having twolvo feet frontage by fifteen feet depth, can be made, but exhibi- tors purchasing suoh bays must leave their own passages inside them. All applications must bo accompanied by payment of tho full amount for tho space. 3. Space in the Exhibition Grounds can be obtained at tho rate of one guinea for tho first one hundred squaro feet, and one penny for evory additional squaro foot. 4 Tho general reception of articles in the Exhibition Building will commence on Ist of March, and coaso the Saturday be- foro the opening, after which date no ex- hibits can 1)0 received, and all vacant spaces become forfeited. 5. 