AUCKLAND EXHIBITION

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 77, 1 April 1914, Page 7

AUCKLAND EXHIBITION

objection to a statement. financialTsuccess. (DI TELEORAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND. This Day. Objection is taken to the statement made_ at the meeting of Wonderland shareholders that Wonderland had carried the Auckland Exhibition on its back. This statement is refuted by the Exhibition authorities, who declare that when the day of settlement has been teached the public will have every reason to he satisfieaT with the financial result. The secretary states that the attendant to date has totalled nearly 50,000 people., and that the receipts for the first three months totalled £62,000. It was perfectly ridiculous, therefore, "or anyone to state that the Exhibition had not been distinctly successful— financially or otherwise. The guarantors would not be called on for a farthing in connection with the financing of the Exhibition, and already about £7000 had been spent in beautifying the grounds and building a permanent kiosk in the Domain. MACHINERY AWARDS. AUCKLAND. 31st March. The judges of the machinery exhibits have made first-class awards to the following : Selson Engineering Company, drilling and shaping machines, lathes, etc. ; Donald and Rider, patent wire netting fastener; A. and T. Burt, Ltd., metal washing machines, lifting apparatus, and frictionless winches, pumps, sugar and sweetmeat machines, dough mixer, refrigerating machinery, firefighting appliances, mining machinery, gold retort; Donald and Sons, Ltd"., lifting jacks; Hayward, Tyler, and Co. (London), apparatus for bottling aerated waters; W. Simmons and Co., Ltd., hatbour dredging and reclaiming plant, A. and T. Burt, Ltd., steel wire ropes, ships' fittings, armaments.

Mr. A. E. Glover. ,M.P. for Auckland Central, is on a visit to Wellington. End of Season Straw Boaters, usual piice 6s 6d and 7s 6d. We are clearing at Is hII round. Wp must hav_e room. Geo._ FowldSj Ltdj.— -Advt,