EXHIBITION PROSPECTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 179, 29 July 1913, Page 7

EXHIBITION PROSPECTS.

DMATEECTED BY THE EPIDEMIC MILITARY BAND ENGAGED. Suggestions have been made during the past week or two that tho forthcoming Auckland Exhibition will probably euSer as a result of the epidemic which has been affecting several native*, and a few Europeans in the Auckland province. It ia interesting to observe, however. that thie pessimism ihae at no stage of the outbreak made itself apparent in the principal officiate who have beeu working so energetically for months past in the interests of the' approaching Exhibiiicn. "We have not the lea/5t fear on that score," said the president of the Exhibition Executive (Mt. George FJliot) to a "Star" reporter tJiie morning. "The ecarc," he added, "will, we hope. Lave entirely blown over within a mouth from now, and, as the Exhibition doos not open till the end of the year, there -will be ample time for the people of New Zealand to be thoroughly reassured of the safety of v-ieiting Auckland."

Mr. Elliot added that in any ease, the promoters of the gala, event had been careful to eulcnriaite co that the enccc.se of the fixture would ha assured even if only the people of tte Auckland province accorded it the loyal support that was anticipated. At the ■same time, he believed that tlicre -would be a big influx to Auckland from other centres of the Dominion.

A cablegram Trae received last night confirming the arrangement between the Exhibition Executive and the military authorities in England for the visit of th-r Royal Artillery Band, of Wool-irich. to Auckland during ten wo.eks of the exhibition season. This band, comprising 44 instrumental artiste, id one of the forefront bands associated wfeh the British Army, and it has only been secured at consideraible expense.. It can be spared from England for not longer than five months, and its stirring music will therefore not be heaTd anyivlu>re in Australasia except Auckland. The preeence. of such a. fine musical combination will be one off the greatest features of the Exhibition, and it will' also be a unique event in the muisical.»experience of New Zealand.

ItepreseTrtaiives of the Railway Department met the president and members of the Exhibition Executive yesterday afternoon to discuss matters connected with the departments display for which, a. epa«e of 5000 ft. has been booked. It is proposed to erect a bridge nut of ordinary line rails, and models of various bridges, viaducte, etc., are to be -displayed. There •will aleo be a model of the projected locomotive depot and the railway station ai Newmarket, and specimens of switches, signals, iocomotive parts and various other rail-way appliances will be rfiown in an.area2ooft long , and 25ft. wide.