BETTER AND BRIGHTER

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 706, 4 July 1929, Page 9 (Supplement)

BETTER AND BRIGHTER

SHOW SUITS ALL TASTES ! WELL ARRANGED DISPLAY The exhibition is better and brighter than ever before. Considered as a well arranged and | remarkably interesting whole, the show fulfils the main object, to instruct and educate the public by giving information as to the vast potentialities of the wonderful district in which it is our privilege to live. Just to prove that dullness is certainly not a virtue of the exhibition, the management has leased the forecourt to the showmen, gathered from far and near. With their pleasing baritones and tenors they lure the visitors to their gay parlours, containing the wonders of sea and earth, “the smallest pony in the world,” the “mystery house.” Here are games of skill by the score, from the ancient art of “hoop-la” to more modern and intricate contrivances like the “tin kangaroo” and the racing automobiles. The second glance convinces the visitor, however, that it has a serious purpose, that every producer, manufacturer, importer, retailer in the province is putting forward his very best in its most attractive form, to convince the public that he is doing his bit toward the prosperity of Auckland. Pride of province is manifest aud infects the visitor, who squares his shoulders and holds his head higher—that is, if he is lucky enough to call himself an Aucklander—as he walks through the show. Brightness and variety there is in plenty. \ SCOPE AND VALUE A show built and arranged on the careful, comprehensive lines of the Winter Exhibition cannot but be of immense value not only in indicating the advancement and extent of the primary and manufacturing industries of New Zealand, but in giving a definite clue to the potentialities of various growing factors of national wealth. It sounds the pulse, as if were, of progress in all main departments of community endeavour. FARM PRODUCE Ranking highly in the displays are those of the butter and cheese, which emphasise the importance of the milking herds to the North Island districts. Allied sections, including honey, fruit, maize, flax and poultry, form other exhibits of outstanding interest, each telling its tale of progress, and each indicating future requirements as compared with the present achievement. A new feature is the exhibition of Angora and Chinchilla rabbits—a new industry which is rapidly becoming, 1 k popular and which promises sound commercial results. The exhibition of over 90 of these animals should tend to draw the attention of many suburban residents with small holdings to a profitable hobby, while incidentally the growth of this industry might help the country to place the rabbit problem upon a different footing. In some quarters it has, for many long years, been regarded as a bugbear to farmers in spite of the fact that for some years past it has been responsible for over £500,000 of the value of the Dominion’s exports. MANUFACTURES Turn now to the manufacturing section of the Exhibition—certainly the most fascinating quarter and- one where there is many an eye-opener and an object lesson for the man who makes a parade of belittling the industrial ability of his neighbours and blood brothers. The importance of the manufacturing section iu an exhibition such as

this cannot be overestimated; moreover the exhibits are in apt relationship with the remaining displays. The manufacture of machinery, for instance, is one phase of the great division of labour which enables the man on the land to concentrate upon his primary production. The Auckland Winter Exhibition embraces practically all the requirements of the man on the land and some of the luxuries. A special phase of the joint executive's organisation is its determined effort to put New Zealandmade goods before the Dominion’s people. For many years there has been a current belief that the New Zealand-made article could not equal the manufactured article of any other country. The Auckland Winter Exhibition is fast destroying this popular, but damaging, misconception. A huge area of the exhibition is allotted to New Zealand-made goods, which stand I comparison with the best the outside -world can oiler.