DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18238, 24 November 1924, Page 8

DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.

DIRECTORS' TOUR. A public meeting trill "be held in the new City Council Chambers, Manchester street, this evening, wlien Messrs W. R. Hayward, A. Barnctt, and C. Todd, of Dunodiu, will deliver addresses on the aims and objects of the big Exhibition to be opened in Dunedin next yGar. A cordial invitation is extended to members of public bodies, trade organisations, and all persons interested to attend the meeting an& assist in the organisation of a Canterbury court. ''We have interviewed representative men in Auckland, Taranaki, Hawke's Bay, Wellington,' Nelson, Marlborough, and the West Coast, and committees to organise provincial courts havo been set up in all centres except one," stated Mr Hayward, who came through from the West Coast on Saturday. Mr Hayward said that he had had a great reception wherever he went. In the one district he had excepted, there waß every probability that a committee would be set up. The secretaries of both the Wellington and Auckland Industrial Associations, lie said, were acting as secretaries for Exhibition Manufacturers' Committees. Speaking of the support offered the Exhibition by the British Government, he said that besides talcing 28,000 square feet of space, it had given the directors the choice of nine, historic military bands. (iPECIAi TO "THE I91II,") DUNEDIN, November 2?.. The work on the Exhibition buildings is now so well advanced as to be quite up to, if not ahead of. the calculations of the contractors, and some of the labourers have had to be put off. The working staff to-day numbered 170. There is not the least anxiety on the part of the contractors as to their undertaking being completed in pleuty of time. The question of material has ceased to give any trouble or difficult}-.