WELLINGTON'S SHARE

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 51, 28 August 1925, Page 5

WELLINGTON'S SHARE

IN DUNEDIN' EXHIBITION SUCCESS 01? THE COURT ! ASSURED. Discussion on the form to be taken by the Wellington provincial display at the forthcoming New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition at Dunedin took pLa.ce at a combined meeting last evening of the Wellington Exhibition Committee and delegates from the various local bodies within the province and from Nelson. Mr. J. R. Simpson occupied the chair.

The chairman said that the purpose of the meeting was to give the delegates of the local bodies an opportunity of seeing what work the committee had done. He outlined the initial work of securing subsidies from the Wellington City Council and the Harbour Board—£lsoo from the council and £300- from the board. He welcomed the delegates from Nelson, Wanganui, and the Wairarapa. Mr. Leigh Hunt, chairman of the organising committee, said that the amounts actually voted by local bodies throughout the district were as follow :—Wellington £1850, Wairarapa £1168, Wanganui £600, .with the prospect of another £350, Rangitikei £275, Manawatu £100, Nelson between £600 and £1000. Amounts which there was a likelihood of obtaining were:—Wairarapa £342, Manawatu £865, Horowhenua £255, Rangitikei £110. The amount practically in sight at present was about £5000. Marlborough had definitely decided not to come into the Wellington Court. Mr. S. Wilson, for the Finance Committee, said that the success of the Wellington Court was assured. So far as finance was concerned there was not the slightest reason why the committee should not go ahead in its work. (Applause.) Mr. S. Natusch, architectural adviser to the Wellington Committee, estimated that the total cost of the court, allowing a fair margin for exhibition charges, would be £2700 for a shell only of the building, including ordinary painting. Delegates present spoke in approval of the "spade work" carried out by the committee, and the following motion was passed:—"That this meeting heartily endorses the work of the Wellington Provincial Committee, and authorises if to continue as it is doing with the construction of the court." It was decided that the court be named the Wellington and Nelson Provincial Court. It wias decided that the space in the court be divided in accordance with the class of product displayed, and not as representing the various districts in theErovince, as was formerly suggested. Mr. eigh Hunt outlined a scheme whereby the various classes of product would be displayed separately, and the name of the district from which each product was collected placed over that display. This suggestion was adopted.