STILL UNPUBLISHED.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 952, 20 October 1910, Page 6

STILL UNPUBLISHED.

' OFFICIAL RECORD OF NEW ZEALAND EXHIBITION.

(By/;Meßrapii;^PfeßS'Association;)

Christchurch, Octciber 19. : ; Several: ; .business;;inen,' : whose,Attention. : was-.called, to> the ..fact tthat ;to ;date. no official. .record ■ of ithe; , New ; Internationial- Exhibition' .publish-, ed,expressed ; considerable,;- astonishment at.the;,delay ,which: lias "occurred; in -issuing, a';-compact , and complete official recordi of i,the ■■'■Exhibition.':.;! . When it^ stated that ! the,., official record of-' -the South s Seas ; Exhibition l 'held' in'-Dnne'din in' 188M0:.«-asipublished'by the,Goverh- ; merit in .1891 it . will';be seen that; though 'on' a much larger;' scale- tKre';is' apparently;rib I excuse' for tho delay that, has taken place; J Furthermore; it: is; understood"that prac- I tically all the data for the official record' of-the .Christchurch Eshibition; was, prepared some time ago. '. ■' ■.'. ,' Mr. F.. E. ; Jones,, president/ of the Chariiber'.of. isaid that; speak.ingifor.:;himself; he; 1 jras .certain ..that'.the. .Go.verhment-,,had 'iadeL-.an.Vovereight : iri 'not .having an official: record "of : the:-Ex-hibition, published;>',Snclra: record would be valuable in;years to 'come; "when many - /details ' connected with,i the;- Exhibition would .have; been...'forgotten,:; and could only be. ascertained by' . a somewhat lengthy -. process of consulting files' of newspapers." sit was duo .' to 'thoso who had- helped- to: make .the. .Exhibition' a success, that such- a record should bo issued;; it': V; be '■' evider.ee of the coriipetitive ; value. of the awards made,, as it. would give the der tails :re»irdiiLg.„th'e..,diftereii.t : . : irianufac-; turers :who had competed in various sec : tions. As an : instance of the iiriportanoo that some exhibitors attached to ' tho Exhibition; 'Mr. Jones produced a handsomely got-up souvenir ;dcsoriptt6n of the •works and'goods-manufactured by a firm that .exhibited at 'the Exhibition; "The New Zealand International' Exhibition" was; prominent!}-,, aniioujioed in largo letters: on ! the. cover,-' and ;inside ,there;ims' a"; reproduction -of "the /award;. gained by. tHb : 'firm,: ; aiid..also' ; of the exhibit made : by it; '. Mr. •' J ones said that he considered thai the time Was opportune. ;for' the .publication of .the; record, arid /when the question. of cost', was'ai-' liided .to-; lie said that such ,a publication, was part of - the . duty in tho. matter, advertising . tho Dominion, and if the record, were well got up it would be a, yery/gpod adverdsement. .7 -•Mr; R. Buchanan, president of the,lndustrial : Association, was •. astonished s at. the -remissness'' of: the Government in delaying the publication of the record,: aiid said; that it- ought to bo published, and -should have been published long ago. The sooner it wis done the better. It was due to, the 'exhibitors that an official record o£ the. Exhibition should bo issued. . -