INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7796, 12 April 1905, Page 2

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

A QUESTION OF FINANCE* (Pur Proud Association.) CHIUSTCHI'UCII, Apia ',ll. 'Jim Premier to-day conlscrcl wiUi the Mtj'or and local tnteriW':* ol * Parliament tvgardiug Up wuhMionui exhibition, and 4i/Kutnai * numbor of details regarding .the, lta» 1 u acini uppect, Ho stntod Um£ U* Government did not anticipalejtha t there would be any 4<m, bat, tl» executive could go on the mum my lion that it there wait m H lorn ol £20,000 tint advantage* would cam* poiuule (or it. It, as he bad hearA Mated, there won a po—ibUlty of» am of £30,000 or £IO,OOO, tfm they should reconsider their position. The JUayor mid he had »evor heard such a loss Miggwted. i. Thtt I'rernii'r Miggeutul that a. Royal Commission, Conniving ol lending men in different centre*, nbouM M appointed. He o(loved the ew> cutivo the Bt'rviro* ot a number ot departmental officer# to aaaiat aad advise rcgurding tho choic* ot ■ ait* and other umttlgr%

THE SITE (SELECTED* >. CHIUSTCRtTRCft ApriT tft A meeting of Uw general Com* uiittce of the £)Mjt< tion was held to-night, and attended by about 150 nemlwra, laeluding Mr J, S. Munro, Of thi Industries and Commerce ItepMtMnt, who represented tbo Oovcrninml All the sectional committeos ' set up, and tt was decided tlwt eaoh should appoint a chairman, who is to be ex officio a umnAwot the executive. Tho question of *it» was discuMod *t Coj»Ma»bU Length, throe different fifties bet** proposed. It was ultimately ■*»<•*£ ed to select, a North Uagiey Park site near the Armagh Street bridge.