Complaints by some fair exhibitors

Press, 21 August 1979, Page 6

Complaints by some fair exhibitors

Complaints of inadequate pfenning to allow for sufJfidjent heating, lighting and advertising have come from e»ibitors in the outside gKlions of the Canterbury hfcnufacturers’ Association Industries Fair. j *7he 30 exhibitors in the: pavilion at Addington w Grounds have signed a tion to the association icising the conditions and ing for a 50 per cent rei. he petition questioned the discrepancy in the cost of aftilar exhibit spaces in the pavilion and the “inadequate* siii-posttßg and advertising tShnth outfide rvivilwws rwund of theta money to cut tljeir losses. -Jhey also asked why, in shite of supposed planning, tie building did not have the niessary electricity or heatarmlv civ hmirc

a day; at the week-end ex-. 5 hibitors froze while heaters t had to be turned off, he said This also meant that the pub- [ lie who did come out to the t pavilions were unwilling to 1 linger long at an exhibit. , The spokesman said the I ; exhibitors who paid for space i, were guaranteed a walkthrough of about 150,000 [ | people over the two weeks. |i ; "It will be nowhere near I that figure as the public are I not made aware of the out-|[ side pavilions," he said.: j i Exhibitors in the “D” pavi-'i lion were also dissatisfied! with the lack of people visit* ing the pavilion and the ab-!: sence of any heating. i Some exhibitors, who had 1 come from as far away as 1 Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin, said that because of lack of sales they would i almost certainly lose money. I The pavilion, which is be-j; hind the circus and zoo tents,l'

was inadequately sign-posted, they said. The director of the Canterbury Manufacturers Association (Mr I. D. Howell) said last evening that so far no petition had been received by the association from the [dissatisfied exhibitors. He said the pavilion had Ibeen hired from the Canterbury Agricultural and PasItoral Association because of i the many exhibitors this year. ! New concrete floors were put .in. as well as heating and i lightbig. * I ..“If, was the only space available for these people,” Isaid Mr Hdwell. "It is what they were offered and what they accepted. It is only a temporary -.pavilion.” V. . Mr Howell said there was an electrical fault in ”‘0” pavilion yesterday, but that -had been fixed. He was not j awarfe of any other problems with heating or lighting.