INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1143, 2 June 1911, Page 2

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

AN AUCKLAND PROPOSAL.

(By Telecraph.-Prcss Association.)

, ~. Auckland, June 1. A public meeting wo* held this afternoon to consider the question of holding an International Exhibition in Auckland at an curly date. The Mayor (Mr. C. J. Inrr) presided, and there was a large attendance.

Iho Mayor said he was strongly in favour of tho proposed Exhibition. The last fair hold in Auckland, fifteen years ago, had proved n great success and he was convinced that the time had arrived vheii another should be held. With fast and well-appointed steamers, thousands of people wouid come from Australia and further afield, nnd Auckland would be the holiday centre of tho South Pacificfor 1912.

Mr. Loo'Myers (chairman of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce) said that during the last 17 or 18 years New Zealand had passed through an unprecedented period of prosperity, whilst (lie potentialities of the Dominion wore just beginning to bo thoroughly appreciated, Hoarding tho date on which' the Exhibition should be held, the first suggestion had been to hold it in 1015 coincident with the. opening of the Panama Canal, a scheme which it was believed would play no unimportant part in the development of (his country. Subsequent consideration had convinced the Chamber of Commerce that there was no need to wait four years, and that a shorter period would be sufficient in which to pro-' pure an exhibition worthy of the Dominion and the province in which it will 1)9 held. It had to be remembered that the Winnipeg Exhibition takes plncc in 1913H, and the hig 'Frisco Fair in 1915, Jlr, Myers moved that a Provisional Committee be appointed to consider the advisability of holding a New Zealand International Exhibition in Auckland, such committee be set up to consider the matter and to report (a an adjourned meeting to bo held within 28 davs.

Mr. B. Huddle (president of the Auckland Provincial Industrial Association) seconded tho motion, and other speakers a.ivc expression to their opinion, Mr. Myers's proposal of relegating the main issues to a Citizens' Committee being carried.