VISITORS ASTOUNDED

Evening Star, Issue 19001, 24 July 1925, Page 6

VISITORS ASTOUNDED

MAGNITUDE OF EXHIBITION Delegates to the meeting of the Real Estate Institute of 1 New Zealand visited the Exhibition buildings at Logan Park yesterday, and were—to use their own term—“absolutely staggered ” by the magnitude of the venture. Mr H. R. Spence, Exhibition secretary, accompanied them. “ In coming here for the first time,” said Mr Albert Clark, vice-president of tiie Auckland Land Agents’ Association, “I felt justified in basing my ideas of the Exhibition on the last Auckland one, but I find that this is miles ahead of anything of its kind I have seen. It is absolutely staggering in size, and can only be excelled by the Wembley Exhibition. After nil, however, it is only what one would expect ■ from _ the wonderful optimism of the Dunedin people, who seem to make a success of any venture they take in hand. I only hope that this Exhibition will succeed as it deserves to. If only the people in other centres can gain an appreciation of the size of the venture I am satisfied they will come down in great force. It will certainly he a pleasure to me to mention to Auckland people what a holiday they can get by coming to Dunedin this summer. The Exhibition will be worth while even if it is only for the reclaimed ground, which will no doubt prove to be a valuable asset to the city for all time. Only Dunedin people could, I am sure, carry a venture like this to success.”

“So big as to stagger one,” was the description applied by Mr 11. W. Hoslop (president of the Canterbury Land Agents’ Association). He was surprised that with the small population of Now Zealand there were men with sufficient enterprise to carry out anything so big. Mr E. F. Liffiton (Wanganui) thought it was a great pity that the buildings could not bo made use of after the Exhibition. There was no question that the venture would do New Zealand much good. It seemed almost unbelievable to him that Logan Park had once been the bottom ,of a lake.

Mr A. Sorby (Hamilton) declared that the Auckland and Wellington Exhibitions could not have hoped to touch this one. “ The Dunedin people must have put up an enormous amount of money, and, indeed, it is a tribute to the remarkable confidence they have in their town,” he said. “I shall do my best to give the people of Hamilton and the Waikato an idea of the work. They don’t seem to he under the impression that it is nearly such a big affair.”