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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 9TH JULY, 1887.

REGULATIONS

Concerning the Despatch, Reception, Arrangement, and Return of the Goods Exhibited, and Disposal of Space.

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1.-Every person admitted as au exhibitor will receive, in Melbourne, and with the least possible delay, an exhibitor's ticket, showing his rotation number and the dimensions of the space allotted to him.

He will receive at the same time printed labels to be affixed to the packages he may send to the Exhibition.

2.The labels supplied to exhibitors will be printed on paper of different colours, according to the group to which the products to be exhibited may belong.

The conventional colours adopted are as follows:———

Group 1. (Works of art)

.Pink.

Group 2. (Education and instruction, apparatus and processes of the liberal arts)........... Group 3. (Furniture and accessories)

.White.

.Blue.

Group 4. (Fictile manufactures, glass, pottery, etc.)

.Buff.

Group 5. (Textile fabrics, clothing and accessories)

..Bright-yellow.

Group 6. (Raw and manufactured processes and products)

Brown.

Group 7. (Apparatus and processes used in the mechanical industries)

.Red.

Group 8. (Alimentary products)

.Violet.

Group 9. (Sanitation, medicine, hygiene, and public relief).

..Black.

Group 10. (Agriculture and associated industries)

..Dark-green.

..Light-green.

....Grey.

Group 11. (Horticulture)

Group 12. (Mining industries-Machinery, processes, and products)

3.—The Commissioners place at the disposal of countries and colonies all information and plans which may be useful for their arrangements.

4.-Exchanges of space cannot be made without the consent of the Executive Commissioners.

5.-Exhibitors will not have to pay rent for the space occupied by them in the Exhibition. The flooring will be provided in sound condition and ready for use within the whole of the main building; but the flooring must not bo altered, removed, or strengthened, for the exhibition of machinery, convenience of arrangement, or any other purpose, except with the consent of the Executive Commissioners, and at the expense of the exhibitors.

6. The spaces reserved outside the exhibition allotments being strictly calculated with a view to the necessities of circulation, packages and empty cases will not be allowed to remain there.

Cases must, therefore, be unpacked as carly as possible after their reception, and the empty cases at once taken away by the exhibitors or their agents.

Should the exhibitors neglect to carry out in the manner thus indicated the unpacking of the goods and the removal of the empty cases, the work will be undertaken by the Executive Commissiouers, but in no case will the Commissioners incur any responsibility whatsoever in the execution of this duty. The Commissioners will have nothing to do with the warehousing and preservation of the empty cases; neither have any arrangements been made, nor any space reserved, for the purpose. Exhibitors who may be unable to provide for the removal and preservation of their empty cases are advised to communicate with the Secretary.

General Arrangements.

7.-Certain products, which it may be found impossible to display in the main buildings, will in some exceptional cases be exhibited in the surrounding parks and gardens, in buildings erected for the purpose.

8. With regard to the Victorian section, the Commissioners will place themselves in communication with the committees established in each locality. The duties of these committecs will be :-

1. To make known the rules concerning the exhibition, and to distribute the forms of application for space, as well

as all other documents relating to the Exhibition.

2. To point out as soon as possible the principal artists, agriculturists, and manufacturers whose exhibits would

appear to be particularly calculated to promoted the success of the undertaking.

3. To encourage the exhibition of the manufactures, and of the mineral, pastoral, agricultural, and horticultural

products of the district, and to accredit to the Commissioners the delegate charged with their representation. 9.-Spirits or alcohol, oils and essences, corrosive substances, and generally all substances which might spoil other articles or inconvenience the public, can only be received in solid and suitable vessels of small size.

Percussion caps, fireworks, chemical matches, and similar articles, can only be received when made in imitation, and deprived of all inflammable ingredients.

10.—Exhibitors of objects of a disagreeable nature, or such as may be prejudicial to health, will be bound at all times to conform to such precautionary measures as may be considered necessary.

11.-The Commissioners reserve the absolute right to cause the removal of any article whatever, if, on account of. its nature or appearance, they deem it advisable to do so.

12.-All goods must be exhibited under the name of the person who has signed the application for admission. 13.-Exhibitors are entitled to insert after their name or that of their firm the names of their assistants of every class and grade who may have taken part in the production of the goods exhibited.

14.-Exhibitors are particularly requested to mark the trade price of the articles exhibited, so as to facilitate the judgment of the Jury, as well as for the information of visitors.

15.-Persons desirous of exhibiting articles not mentioned in the General Classification may apply to the Executive Commissioners.