TO COST £44,000

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 79, 30 September 1938, Page 5

TO COST £44,000

PROVINCIAL COURT

A MINIMUM ONLY

DELEGATES ENTHUSIASTIC

Estimates of the financial contributions amounting to more than £44,000 to be made by the provinces in the combined provincial court at the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition were announced yesterday at a meeting at Wellington of representatives of provincial Centennial committees to discuss the scheme. The Mayor of Wellington (Mr. T. C. A. Hislop), chairman of directors of the Exhibition Company, presided over 40 delegates, representing every province of the Dominion. Complete details of the scheme for the provincial court was explained by Mr. James Fletcher (Wellington) and Mr. R. Muston (Auckland). A resolution was passed unanimously approving the general lay-out of the court, as illustrated by the models, plans, and diagrams laid before the meeting. The meeting was a most enthusiastic one, and all present agreed that the Dominion court would be something of which the whole Dominion might well be proud. t An executive committee was set up to decide the actual features to be incorporated in each provincial area and similar questions, taking into account provincial committees concerned. This committee consists of Messrs. C. Todd (Wellington, chairman), P. Pattrick (Wellington), J. Sutherland RosS| (Dunedin), J. A. C. Allum (Auckland), W. S. MacGibbon, (Christchurch) and T. W. Hercock (Napier) The provincial committee's representatives gave indications of what their contributions towards the cost of the scheme would be. The amounts named represented only the minimum each wQuld contribute, several delegates suggesting that there was every possibility their pr6vincial contributions would be substantially increased. Moreover, the contributions represented merely the amount to be contributed to the "central fund, each province retaining in its own hands an amount to cover its domestic expenditure on publicity, arrangements for its own reception hall, supervision, and go forth. The estimated contributions were as follows: — Wellington £10,000 Auckland £8,000 Canterbury ..... £7,500 , Otago ..• £7,000 Southland £3,000 North Auckland £2,100 Nelson : £2,000 ■ Hawke's Bay £1,500 Taranaki £1,250 Marlborough £1,000 West Coast £1,000 It was agreed that the construction of the court should be placed in the hands of the originators pf the scheme, Fletcher and Love, the Exhibition contractors.: It is understood that Mr. R. Muston will leave shortly for the United States in order to study various aspects of modern exhibition modelling, and other problems of the construction of the! exhibit.