THE ROUBAIX EXHIBITION.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1038, 30 January 1911, Page 8

THE ROUBAIX EXHIBITION.

, NIJW ZEALAND'S COURT. , Information as.to tlic dato fixed., for the. opening of the Roubaix Exhibition, at; which Neiv Zealand'- is expected to .- make." an exhibit, including agricultural products, ■ conflicts. , When Mr. Lucicn Nop'eriaire; 'the ■ representative of the 1 Exhibition in Australasia, was in Wellington, at the beginning of tho, year, he told a Dominion.representative that the-date d£ opening would bo May 1, but the Commerce Department has been advised tliat April 25 is-the date. It Cannot be said jet which is the correct information.' .' Although ' the doubt. is unlikely to cause inconvenience, it is to bo hopell , that reliable . news will bo available :. ... Boon.- • - . Ona of the- chief exhibits in the New Zealand 'c'Oiirt, if- not the chief, will be : the wool, as Ro'ubaix is the great French : centre of woollen manufactories, and is . a-big customer, of ours in the fine jvools. The wool we send will go via London. '- *■, ~'<The-High Commissioner for New Zealand (the . Hon. William'Hall-Jones) al- ■ ready has in London a good many samples, of New Zealand product, and-tlieEe can be transferred to France to occupy places in the court.. . i The person who is to . have charge of the court may 'or., may not have been fixed upon," but it' is said'to be improbable that Mr. John Graham Gow, who Was in charge of the Dominion's exhibit at Buenos Ayres, will bo sent on to Roubaix on a similar 'mission. ,