PROFIT OF OVER £20,000.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 138, 11 June 1914, Page 2

PROFIT OF OVER £20,000.

ntOM AUCKLAND EXHIBITION. ImMAIX O'ROUNDS TU ' i-.'NKKIT. Tho financial result. „if the recent Aa. kland Industrial. ' ■ rri.ult oral, and Milling Exhibition «■__«, disebn-ed a: a, IlllVtillg Oi the I. aIM-e Committee 1)1 the Inhibition X ectitive thir- afternoon. Although th . meeting was held in . iiiifnT :i ;- imdorr-tooil that a profit „• ..■..-,- 3.-11.11.111 was reported. Tins : i 'hi... a -iim of betwi i n UToiiti ami .l-'.ii:.i. whii-b war. expended in convert:tij t'le groundc oi the I Inter Domain •ntn attractive garden*, another sum , ■ ... '..oil r . ■ .-•■,-.-i)t th" value of the : ■ tm.ment kii.sk. which war. erected v. ii i muir-rial- jsvi'ii b\ leading ciii/••n.- and , a further item of Ll' ln'Ug tin- vain- nl tin- fairy fountain, vjii.ii formed otic m in.- leading outdo ir .if ruction.- a: the i:\liibition, and u!i i it-, to be left as a permanent a ''.''"'licit oi tlic |)i>iua:ii gardens. A- in generally known, tbe promoters ■"..'.. incut tii ii t auv iTiitit accniin.; from t•■ iixJiihitii.li should be utilised fur : ,■ beaut ilicallon oi tic Domain •id h"i.'crl them in evolving sttcb an at•:a i. c garden -i !i.<me for the lixbibit "ti i-eason. Tlir lerraces. lawns, and fln«.r hods resulting from this scheme •a. already been handed over to the .'-."" of the city landscape gardener l Mr i |YaJ-.-on., and it is, understood that t ■ tcmamder of the sum op the profit f!' nt the ledger is to l>e c:\pendori • v-irdantT with a s 'ipme authorised ■;■ the Exhibition Executive. \ proposal was recently submitted to r r i ity Council by the ''Wonderland" f-"id-rate to open ('he Exhibition amuse-r.i.-nts area for a few months during ; "■ coming iNummer. hni it i« understood lnt mc company has not cnn>idoro(l it north while complying with the terms ynirtn..<i._- hy the Pounril. namely, that a ■ I'pot-H of £500 should be lodged imme- ■' ltely to bind the contract. In that i a.-.c the proposal --.vonid appear likrly