THE EXHIBITION AND AFTER.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 254, 24 October 1905, Page 5

THE EXHIBITION AND AFTER.

SOME PESSIMISTIC VIEWS.

(By Telegraph.—Press . Association.)

WELLINGTON, thir. day. , Reference was made to the 'Christchurch Exhibition'at the annualdihneieof the Industrial Association.'- J Mr T. Ballinger said it would be very interest-' ing, and would bring a large influx of visitors. Indirectly the; gain would "be large/ but they could hardly, expect the exhibition to. be a financial success. Most big exhibitions" ended in'-aloss, The small on"= held by local Industrial Associatioi : % -l all shown a' profit. Replying to a toast, Mr S. Brown said he was doubtful as to the after-effects of the exhibition. It was inviting ■other countries to use New Zealand ag a dumping ground. After the' exhibi- ; tion, with all this stuff dumped on the markets, there would be depression, and the loss would fall on the colony as ■>' a whole; At another stage the < same \ . speaker said that in many lines, -of manufacture New Zealand w°nld be \ largely crippled at no very distant date, , and we were not training up: any artisan class. The Harvester Trtist" was , also a topic of several speeches, the, general consensus of - opinion; ;■> from M.H.R.'s and others present waß that > something "must be done, and: it".was , hoped the Labour Conference would be -<;• able to come to modus Vivendi, r