IMPORT REGELATION AND EXHIBITION
Overseas Industries
MAYOR BELIEVES THEY WILL TAKE PART
Speaking at the dinner ol Todd Motors Ltd. last night, the mayor of A\ e>lingtou. Mr. Hislop. referred to those various mentally decrepit individuals who sav that because of the import regulations the Centennial Exhibition will be a-failure.” Approximately 75 per cent, ol be space had been reserved. said Mr. 11 .felon. who went on to say that lie cotismered Hie regulations were so introduce, as to create the utmost opposition right at the beginning so that biter on. after examination, stability count lie arrived at on a sound basis. The exhibition was not designed tot the aggrandizement of anyone taking part in it, but as a mark of the ment of 101) years of national lite. He did nor believe for a moment that those gifat British industries which had played a part in building this Dominion would be deterred by temporary economic barirers and run away from it. To put it on the lowest-basis it would be bad business. Nothing could be worse than for industries to desert them at the time of the centennial, and there was nothing move absurd than tiiat he should suggest that they would.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 99, 20 January 1939, Page 5
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