DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 19 November 1925, Page 9

DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.

+ DOMINIONS’ SECONDARY INDUSTRIES. BRITAIN’S ATTITUDE EXPLAINED (by TELEGRAPH. PRESS ASSOCIATION.; DUNEDIN, Nov. 19. Speaking at the official dinner given by the exhibition authorities last night, Mr Dalton, responding to the toast of the guests, expressed his appreciation of the enconiums passed upon the British Court. He declared that Britain’s display “stood for honesty, truth and dignity in all our commercial ajid international relationships.” He hesitated to speak on behalf of other Empire participants, but he could say. after his experience of a number of such displays, that those of the various representatives revealed an amazing capacity to promote secondary industries. Some people feared that Britain did not wish to see the Dominions engaging in industries in competition with her. That was not so. She welcomed every such development among the countries of the Empire. _ Mr Boyle, United States Consul at Auckland, paid a generous tribute to the wonderful achievement typified by the exhibition, and regretted that his country was not more .fully represented. American manufacturers had not realised the scope of this enterprise, but he hoped it would result in increased tourist traffic to New Zealand, leading to augmented purchases by America from New Zealand, so that the balance of trade, now so much against the Dominion, might be more equitably adjusted. •TO-DAY'S PROCEEDINGS. A NOVEL CEREMONY. DUNEDIN, Nov. 19, The capacity of the popular mind to assimilate the novel was tolly exemplified in Dunedin on the third day of the big exhibition. Favoured with fine weather and a lialf-holiday (given primarily as it is People’s Day at the A. and P. Show), the people began early to wend their way to the Wembley of the south, and it is expected that, as the afternoon proceeds, crowds equalling those of the opening day and yesterday will besiege the entrance gates. At midday the Governor-General was the guest of the Fiji Government at the Island court and was welcomed by native Islanders with a ceremony befitting bis rank as the representative of King George. It was a unique ceremony, never before seen in New. Zealand. and lent a touch of the bizarre to the occasion. The Prime Minister., the Hon. J. G. Coates, is paying a visit to the exhibition to-day, also, giving particular attention to the British and New Zealand Government courts.