"A GREAT PITY."

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1126, 13 May 1911, Page 14

"A GREAT PITY."

AUCKLAND'S BIG EXHIBITION. An interesting reference to (he Aurkv" l M th 5V 7™ m EshibiKon* was made by Mr. H. JJ. Baker, American Con out. 1. think (here will be a grcTde f "American microti,, the Auckland Exhibition, especially if H j s to he 0 El. the-0 P cnin 8 ° f '!'« I'auama , r 7 hpy rTi'h- aUo ' a( '"rtisp at (ho Frisco Exhibition the fact of the bi° exhibition at Auckland. WhenU,r the o is.n-great world's fair, there is al va •, \ erenfc amount of stuff with which lh e exhibitors don t exactly know what to do after the exhibition, and if there is "n----other exhibition coming on afterwards they usually send it to that. And, more over, there are concessionaires who would bTd °" Auekland rat] iM' than dis"lt would be a Rood idea if New Zea- ,, w ?, , , ,1, . 1 sOlul a repwsentatiTo exhibit to he '] nseo Exhibition and help to acvertise the country in the United States I particularly refer to some of its cheap products like butter, frozen meat, and An alarming state of tilings was revealed at a mcetiiiß of the Ncwcastle-on-Tync City Council when the Lord Mayor V farmed the council that tho estimated deficit, to be-made up from the rates for next year was .£13,000. This would mean if no reductions were niado in tho estimates, an increase in the rates of 7d in the ,£l. It was decided to send back'the estimates to the various committees