THE AUCKLAND EXHIBITION.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4859, 8 March 1887, Page 2

THE AUCKLAND EXHIBITION.

I [special to daily telegraph.] [OVN COBEBSPONT-HT—by ___ob_ph.] Auc___rD, Lasfc _ighi» Mr Twopenny in the course of, an inter» view with the Star's special correspondent at Dunedin on the subject of the proposed Auckland exhibition, said :—•" My idea is that the jubilee of the colony ought to be celebrated by an exhibition, and that Auckland is the proper place to hold it at, because there never yet has been an exhibition hold there; because that is the district in which the first settlement took place; because it is the largest town in the colony, and is going ahead, more than any other; because an exhibition there would open' up a field for the consumption of our Southern manu» factures: and, lastly, because, it is'the only town that would be likely to pay something itowards the cost of the exhibition." Besides jthis, Auokland offers peouliar facilities for lending important features and attractions [to the ordinary colonial industrial exhib* fitiOn, which you could not use elsewhere. I am alluding, of course, to my. idea of associating the South Sea Islands with the Iproject, besides which the representation of j Maori life, which ought to be very, interest* insr, could only bo made in Auckland, and Sir Julius Vogel's maritime and fisheries could be best brought into play.thero_. I •••*'■ was talking to Mr Mills, of the Union Steamship Company, who is. perfectly de- ! lighted with the idea. He says he is conj vinced, if it were mado known at Home in plenty of-time, it-would-attraot shoals of tourists from England, to.say. nothing of the thousands it wguld bring frpm Australia to such an exhibition. It'would be so absolutely, unique that it would be something that flic, world has never seen before and would relate to the races in which Enjrl [lish people have always taken "a peculiar fintereatJ'.