NEW ZEALAND INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION, 1885.

Kumara Times, Issue 2658, 16 March 1885, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION, 1885.

+ The following circular, dated 11th March, 1885, was received this morning : Sir—l have the honour to inform you that, owing to the numerous applications for space in the general branch of the Exhibition, it has been decided to recommend that the original plan of the Exhibition Buildings should be somewhat enlarged, which recommendation I have no hesitation in saying will in all probability be carried out. In order that no industry in the colony may be unrepresented here in August next, it has been decided to receive applications for space to the 31st instant, and I would most earnestly request that you will lay this matter forcibly before the public, and mention that the object which Government have in view in the proposed Exhibition (the first of a series) is to test from time to time the advance which is being made in the various industries that give employment to labour. The sole object for which Wellington has been chosen as the place for the first Exhibition is on account of the great importance of having the merits and claims of the various industries brought at an early date in a concentrated form under the notice of the Members of Parliament, in order that the subject of repeating these Exhibitions in other places may command the full amount of attention which it deserves.—l have, &c., Charles Callis, Secretary.