PATRIOTIC EXHIBITION

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2699, 19 February 1916, Page 7

PATRIOTIC EXHIBITION

OPENS THIS AFTERNOON

DISPLAY OF BRITISH GOODS

The British Commercial and ,Industrial Patriotic Exhbition will be opened by the Prime Minister at the Town Hall tbs afternoon at 3 o'clock. The large hall has been attractively arranged into a* series of stalls of ample size to accommodate exhibits of an interesting, instructive, and varied description. Flage, mottoes, signs, and other decorations are displayed' throughout the vliole, producing a pleasing elfect and well calculated to set off tho goods showing in the stalls. The Exhibition Committee, alter ,iu inspection of the hall had been made last evening, expressed themselves welt satisfied with the work of the exhibits manager (Mr. E. T. Doddrell) and his staff. When the opening ceremony is completed, the exhibition will be thrown open to all present for inspection and instruction.

The primary objeot of the exhibition is educational, and the -committea has expressed itself as fully convinced that unless those attending the exhibition during to-day and the ooming week have realised the need, and made a resolve for the future to only buy goods of .British make where such are obtainable, in preference to goods of other and especially enemy countries, the exhibition will have failed in its object. 'For this purpose every , inducement is offered tho public to attend —free admission, at aE times, instructive addresses on trade matters, and. plenty of interesting entertainment by iray of diversion. The exhibitors have spared no expense in preparing their exhibits, and will be pnly too pleased to give information and instruction to those asking it. The_ speakers to-night will include Captain Donald Simson and Mr. F. W. Manton. During the evening Jupp's Band will render magical itenia".