An Auckland View of the Dunedin Exhibition.

Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 133, 4 December 1888, Page 2

An Auckland View of the Dunedin Exhibition.

IBt Tblkgeaph.J (Our CiOn Correspondent.) Auckland, This Dat.l The Star says:— There can now be bo manner of question that Dnnedin has nioely " jnmped the claim " of Anokland to have an 'International Exhibition to oelebrate the completion of the jubilee year of the oolony. The promoters of the Dn'nedin' Exhibition, although at first proclaiming it as a mere looal affair to be held towards the close of 1689, have now boldly U'.masked thrir batteries, and have openly claimed Government aid for the affair as a colonial oelebration of the jubilee, while at the came time they have unbhißbingly "annexed" several special features which had been proposed for the Jubilee .Exhibition at Anokland. , Mr. Twdjfeny (whose name is one to conjure with in matters pertaining to exhibitions) has not only laid these proposals before Government, bnt has also aeoured their acceptance of the scheme en bloc, and nothing bnt Parliamentary endorsement is now 'requited to complete the subsidising of the Jubilee Exhibition by Government. We may be permitted to in dulge in regret that Auckland is now virtually precluded from having an Exhibition as part of its Jubilee programme, but we should be the last to throw any obstacle in the way of the Dunedin project, or to endeavour to dissuade Parliament from granting the required monetary assistance. The proposal of Mr. Tvropeny was that Government should provide a building covering an acre and a half of ground, which should be snitable for the main entrance of the Exhibition, and in which should be housed the national part of the show, but Ministers prefer voting a specific sum, and leaving the Exhibition Commissioners free to use it in the way indicated, subject to Government approval of the plans. Should this be done, Government should decidedly stipulate for snoh buildings becoming their own property at the cloße of the Exhibition ; and with a view to their utilisation in future Exhibition buildings in other parts of the colony, the material should be permanent, and of a nature suited for taking to pieces without injury. There are foundries in the colony whioh could produce an excellent iron building of this land in good time for the opening of the Exhibition, and we would urge the Government and Exhibition Commissioners to consider the matter in this light, and thus make the Exhibition building in itself evidence of colonial progress in manufactures. This Jubilee Exhibition will, we trust, bo a conspicuous success, and we would again impress npon Auckland producers and manufacturer* the importance of sending a good representation of their food products and articles of industrial and artistic usefulness.