EXHIBITION CONTROL.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 47, 24 February 1923, Page 7

EXHIBITION CONTROL.

NEW APPOINTMENTS MADE. HICKS' REPORT ACCEPTED. , LONDON, February -I- ' The Kxocutive ( ounetl of the. Km pi re Exhibition unanimously accepted Sir W. ,loynnon Hicks' report, and agreed u> tile a|}. ointment of Sir .lame* Stcven«on, i commercial adviser to the I olonial, O.lice. and Sir Trevor* Clarke, hh vice-; chairman and deputy-chairman respee- i lively. It also agreed to tiie creation of an administrative council of five members, including one High Commissioner, probably Sir Joseph Cool;, to he elected by oliii'i , commissioners. Mr. Winluiir will In- under the administrative ronnril, of winch Sir .lames Stevenson and Sir | Tr.ivcrrt Clarke will be members. Sir Joseph Cook maintained that the \ Ktupirc Products (Committee, of which he j i« chairman, should be ■continued with < iHidimitiiehed pefwers in order to f-nfure j that only Empire product- and metevinls ! be used exclusively. He *.!iinka the final solutiri; eminently satiefa'f >vy. and regarde the Administrative Committee as i practically aualajjoiis to a hoard of' directors with Sir Travers Clarke as ' managing director and Mr. Wintour as general manager.— {.\. and X.Z. Cable.) ;