THE EXHIBITION.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 91, 17 April 1913, Page 5

THE EXHIBITION.

~■ ; | SUPERINTENDENT'S APPROVAL 1 BRIGHT PROSPECTS OF SUCCESS. Mr F. N. Meadows, of Christehurch, who has been appointed to the position of superintendent of the Auckland Exhibition, is spending a few days in Auckland on exhibition business. Mr Meadows told a "Star" reporter this morning that he was chiefly concerned just now -in j ' getting a general idea of what he pro-. 1 posed to carry into effect. It may he mentioned here" that the Exhibition superintendent hae acted in a similar capacity for every " big." function of the kind that has been held in New Zealand and Australia during the past thirty years. He expresses 1 himself as -being delighted with- the site of * the Auckland Exhibition. "The finest!" ' he remarked, "that I liave come across '■ in my experience, and I have had to do " with nine exhibitions." The position and the roominess of the main building were very much in advance of the later exhibition buildings in New Zealand. He was particularly pleased with the loftiness of the courts, which were in this _ respect admirably suited for making an ' effective display. • Even in the present stage of construction one could form a good idea of what it would lie like ultimately, and he knewaenough he thought, \ of what could be done in Auckland in ' the way of laying out-gardens to realise that the beautifying of the - exhibition 1 grounds would be.caTried out with entire ! success. Mr Meadows remarked that a very : large number of visitors to-the exhiblr tion could be expected from Canterbury - and from further south. The beauties of the city itself would, he was confident, 1 be an additional very strong inducement 8 for tourists during Exhibition time. The f arrangements with regard to the tr_wn service appeared to him to he very com--8 plete, and, quite apart from the speeiai c 'bus' service, the .Exhibition would lie * quite.easy of access by two convenient routes. • • • .".._. Another point to which Mr Meadows referred in connection with the loftiness |, of the baildings was the. practical certainty that there would be no "complain! regarding undue heat. The roominess .oi the courts and the open situation wouW prevent any trouble in this direction c He wais very pleased with all arrange lt ments that had been &_*de, and any hesi ~ tation he had felt in assuming .that th< , t prospects were as bright as had been sug c gesrted was ■ now • completely dissipated d Mr Meadows' principal concern on h« )t present visit was consideration of a ij scheme of decoration. It was probable ~ he said, -that the main decorations would be massed along the central avenue c which was 20 feet wide and 600 feet long „ and lent itself-admirably to an effective t display.