THE INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION COMMITTEE.

Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 133, 2 December 1884, Page 2

THE INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION COMMITTEE.

* Last night's meeting of the Manufacturers' Association shows pretty dearly how mnoh in earnest the manufacturers of Wellington are to aid the Government in making the Exhibition a success. In faot they seem more anxious to push the matter on than the Government does. It was a deoided mistake to placa the city members in the position of go-betweens between the Colonial Treasuror and the manufacturers, and there was something rather Indiorons in the way the members last night attended, explainod, suggested and retired. - Their assistance was really as littlo wanted in the matter aa a fifth wheel by a ooaoh, and Sir Julius Vogel did not show his usual perspicuity in calling it in. It would have been far better to have placed Dr. Hector or Mr. Callis in direot communication with all the bodies it was thought desirable shonld be represented on the committee. The Manufacturers' Association last night very properly refused to be bound down to the limits of the members' sohome of rapresentation, and thoy nominated for recommendation twenty gentlemen who very fairly represent the manufacturing interests of tha city, and are all well qualified to do good service on such a oommittee as the one proposed. The Government cannot do better than accopt the whole of the names, and add to them a fair proportion of representatives of other interests, and persons whose experience, advice, and assistance might prove of value in promoting the success of the Exhibition.