EMPIRE EXHIBITION

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 1, 1 July 1922, Page 8

EMPIRE EXHIBITION

MEMBERS OF MISSION TO ; — -.-ARRIVE. :-■; -■: ' ;.;.'.;:\:'._ .The'two "Wellington Chaihiiers of Com-' ■ tnerce together with,the Industrial Asso-; , Nation are co-operating in the matter ( of i j oint ■ meeting..which. has been, arranged' {or Tuesday, afternoon at ,2.30 in the' Dominion Farmers' Institute Hall, Featherston-stTeet^. for.. the purpose of iffording. the business men of Wellington an opportunity to discuss matters of trade, importance to the Dominion -with the members of the British Empire ISxhibi-, fcion Mission. Major E. A. Belchfw, Lieutenant-Colonel A. Christie;- and Mr. ¥. W. Bates.arrive in Wellington on Monday, and will be accorded a civic lehepfcion, midday. Tuesday, and have expressed their desire to meet as represermtive.a body of business men as potsible during their brief stay in Well&igton before visitin.ir the other centres of the The object of their visit is:,' to' explain fully the arrangements' for Vie largest trade .exhibition yet undertaken, and' which" 'will be ti'eia m Lon9qn .in .1924. One hundred,and twenty acres.of,ground will be covered by buildings- to be erected for HHb housing of !Pnfi«h'Kmpirs' exhibits, and a sum of £?-.000,000 will be spent. Of this sum !Mlf, -has already been c;naranteed,. arid Wiß^remainder is in sient., ,The menifcersl'of..flii'e'"ntusion. whilst in New Zealand will talce the oppbrtntrity of distus«ins practical methods of developing ihe- Dominion's raw materials, and how toPTJoftunities may be afforded" by the lexhibjtiorL, for the developmsnt.'.of ioter7nipe«al -trade. • The two-Chambers of' Conftnerce and the"lndustrial Association are anxious that all members of these organisations and also all business men who are. interested in matters of inter-Im-psrial trade will.roake a poinf of attendintr the meetincf of which further particu-lars-appeav elsewhere.