AUCKLAND'S HOPE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1112, 27 April 1911, Page 4

AUCKLAND'S HOPE.

AN INTERNATIONAL FAIR. (By Teleirraph.-Prcss Association.! , Auckland, April 25. To hold an international fair in Atick' land two years hence, au exhibition bigger than aily yet held in New Zealand, is tlie hope and ambition of certain leading citizens of this city. Already the Chamber of Commerce, .backcd by tho Provincial Industrial Association, haa gone into the matter, and the president of the former institution, Mr. Leo. Myers, interviewed 10-day, outlined au, interesting scheme indicating on what lines he thinks the exposition should be run. jlr. Myers said the council of the Chamcer of Commerce felt that tho time had now arrived when another exhibition should bo held in Auckland. It was 13 years ago since the last exhibition to6k place in tho Metropolitan Grounds. That venture had proved a'lug success. The proposal to hold another exhibition in Auckland in the near future had met with universal approval. It teemed to be generally recognised amongst the business men of the city that nothing would more admirably serve to advertise tho progress of Auckland and the potentialities of New.Zealand in general and Auclc-' land Province in particular than an in-tn-national fair, to be held in two or three years' time. The first suggestion had been to make the exhibition coin-, oident with the completion of th« Panama Canal, and tlnis manifest New. Zealand's interest in the culmination of one of the most ambitious engineering schemes the world has ever witnessed, and one that it was generally believed would play no unimportant part in thejuturo commercial development of this 'Dominion. Furl her consideration, however, had convinced many of those interested that the more opportune time would be 1913, or about two years hence, a period sufficiently long from the iueeption of the scheme to enable its sponsors to do justico to it. The educational value of such an exhibition, Mr. Myers pointed out, could not be overestimated.