PANAMA EXPOSITION.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1909, 18 November 1913, Page 6

PANAMA EXPOSITION.

U.S., COStMISSIGNEfiS ARRIVE. (By TokeraDh.—Vrcsi iasoolatioaJ r (nvoroargill, November 17. Tho United States Commission to Australasia in tlw interests of the Panama Exposition arrived at tho Bluff by tlii? L'limaroa to-day. the members of tho commission are Governor Alva Adams, of Colorado, Messrs. *£. fi» .gtallsmith, 0. SoiVor, iijul S. A, Tlio.y have been sohi out by. the IJniu>tl States (icivoniment. "Our'mission is to give any information that may be ef iniorest JtO_ anyone concerned as 'to what the fair is, and what taeb tho possibilities arising through it," said Mr. .Soi\Hjr._ "There aro many reasons why Aus* tniiia and Now Zealand should bo represented. This canal mqans :moro to thorn than to tny other country in tha world because it shortens tho distance from tho European markets by four thousand miles. Tho host market that the canal opens up is that on tho eastern seaboard of Jvnrth America, where Now 'Zealand and its produconre fji'iito unknown. l!y -showing theso people what you li'avo got ;(t tho Exposition you will create, a tremendous demand for your produce. There is the United States, a great restless population .of moneyed men who are ready t.O spend their inmio.y on now territory. A numhor of thr.m h.avo gono to the northwest of Oftilada, and wo think that if tho products <rf your country are. prominently exhibited, you will attract large numbers of theso men to New Zealand, Theso people do not know anything about your country. You must show them your possibilities and tiioy will come out to yoii."