AUCKLAND EXHIBITION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 21, 12 June 1914, Page 5

AUCKLAND EXHIBITION.

A PROFIT OF £20,000. *

By-Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night.

The. financial receipt of the recent Auckland Exhibition was disclosed at a meetihg of the finance committee of tb* Exhibition executive this afternoon. Although the meeting was held iu camera, it is understood that a profit of over £20.000 was reported. This includes a sum of between £7OOO and £BOOO which was expended in converting the grounds of the outer Domain into attractive gardens, another sum of €ISOO representing the value of the permanent kiosk, which was erected with, materials given by leading citizens :■ a further item of £IOOO being the value of I'"' "fairv fountain* which formed on-.' of the'Toading outdoor attractions at the Kxhibition, and which is to be left a« n permanent adornment of the Domain gardens.

. As is generally- hnown, the promoters decided in the ecrly stages of the movement that any profit accruing from the Exhibition should be utilised for the beautiflcation of the Domain grounds, and it was this decision which influenced them in evolving > "eh an attractive garden scheme f(>v the Exhibition season. The terraces, lnwne and flower beds resulting from this neheme have already been -handed over to the care of the city landscape gardener, and it is .understood that the remainder of the sum on the profit side of the ledger is to be expended in accordance vith the scheme authorised by the Exhibition executive.