LOCAL COMMITTEE FOR THE TAIERi A combined meeting of the Taieri County and Mosgiel Borough Councils was held at Mos giel yesterday afternoon to consider a letter from the president of the Exhibition Commis sioners, and form a local exhibition committee if deemed advisable. There were present: Messrs Snow (chairman), Smith, Leary, Murdoch (mayor of Mosgiel), P. Dey, Grant, and Bunting. The following letter was read:—» Dunedin, March 9, IBBS. The Chairman Taieri County Council. Sir,—l bave the honour, by direction of tho com missioners of the New Zealand and Soutl- Seas Exhi bition, ISBO-DO, tn aik you, in conjunction with his "Worship the Mayor of Moßgiel, to form a local com mittee to secure the proper representation of your district at tbjs exhibition. It is intended that each .county or district shall have one or more bays (20lt deep with 12ft frontage to a main avenue), and its own committee will have the fitting up and arrangement of all exhibits from the district. The cost of these hays will be £10 each ; and it is hoped that tho country districts of Otago will follow the lead already given by Canterbury, and Hud sufficient funds to pay for the=.e b.iys and the cost of collecting and arranging exhibits. AH exhibits will be carried free on the railways, and the commissioners will be able to save the c-jm mittees a large amount of the'expenses of postages, stationery, &c; so that a comparatively small sum will satisfy all the rco.uirements. It is imperative, if an elective display be desired, tbat an immediate start should be made, and sheaves of grain, Sc. obtained at once for trophies of the season's crops. In Canterbury, photographs of harvest field's havo been taken to illustrate tne various districts, and I venture to suggest tliat similar action on the part of your committee would be desirable. If your district ia well represented, tho display you would mnke will be a substantial representation of ito capabilities, and will, I am sure, be the best advertisement you ca.n procure. At no distant date a delegate from the commis sioners will wait upon your committee and givo all information required.—l have, &c., Jon.*? K'oubhtr, President. P.S.—A similar letter has been forwarded to hi** Worship the Mayor of Mosgiel. 