PATRIOTIC EXHIBITION

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2698, 18 February 1916, Page 6

PATRIOTIC EXHIBITION

OPENS ON SATURDAY AT TOWN HALL. The Exhibition Committee held a meeting at the Town Hall last night, Mr._ L. T. Watkins presiding. After an inspection of the stalls and decorations had been made, and members' had expressed themselves satisfied with the work of the Exhibits Manager (Mr. E. Doddrel!) and his staff, final arrangements were considered. Tho speakers at the opening ceremony at 3 p.m. tomorrow (Saturday) will bo the Bight Hon. the Prime Minister who will formally open the Exhibition, Sir Joseph Ward will speak in his official capacity as Minister of 'Finance, His Worship the Mayor, Mr. J. P. Luke, will preside, and the president of the Wellington Central Chamber of Commerce, Mr. C. M. Luke, and His Majesty's Trade Commissioner in New Zealand, Mr. R. W. Dalton, who has taken the place of Mr. W. G. Wickham, will speak. When the opening ceremony is comp'crefl tho Exhibition will be thrown open fyr inspection to all present. No special invitations have Deen issued exc-jpt to those gentlemen who havo been asked to spes.k, as the committee ill charge wishes every individual member of the public to realise that he or she lias tlio same right and privilege to see tho opemng ceremony and view the stalls on the first-occasion offered as any other person in. the corariiunity. The object for which the Exhibition has been opened is that the people may see and .learn for themselves the absolute need in tho future of supporting'our local manufactures aDd those of the British Empire. Tho object of the Exhibition is educatioual, and notwithstanding that thousands of people may visit tho Town Hall during the next week, the whole object sought to be attained will be absolutely lost if the people fai( to grasp the lessons that it will bo tho endeavour of tho management to teach. .