THE DUNE DIN EXHIBITION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9220, 24 November 1888, Page 5

THE DUNE DIN EXHIBITION.

[by TELEGRAPH.PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Dunedin, Friday. A very large meeting of shareholders of the Exhibition Company was held this evening-. The committee proposed a long list of names, and it was resolved, subject to consent being obtained, to make the following appointments :—Patron, His Excellency the Governor; president, Mr. John Roberts; vice-presidents, Sir H. Atkinson, Sir J. Hector, Sir G. Grey, Sir W. Fitzherbert, Sir (i. M. O'Rorke, Sir J. Hall, Sir R. Stout, Justice Williams, the Mayor of Duneclin, the Hons. Reynolds, Oliver, and T. Fergus; executive commissioner, Mr. R. P. Twopeny; commissioners, Mayors of Auckland, rapier, Wellington, Taranaki, Blenheim, Christchurch, Hokitika, Timaru, Oamaru, Invercargill. The committee appointed number over 100. It was resolved that as the sum of £10,000 was subscribed, the directors should be empowered to proceed with all things necessary. It was then decided to increase the capital to £15,000. The chairman mentioned that he believed that £10,000 would be subscribed in a few days, and he did not now contemplate such a thing as failure. [BY telegraph. —A CORRESPONDENT] Dcnkdin, Friday. Those interested in the Duncdin Exhibition are anxious that Auckland should cooperate to make the Intercolonial Semicentenary Exhibition a thoroughly colonial affair. The greater its success the wider its effects will reach, and the whole colony must share in the consequent development of industrial enterprise, and the benefits of settlement and investment of capital, attracted by tho attention called to New Zealand's resources. A number of new and original features will, in all probability, be adopted, which will ensure success, and bring visitors from Australia arid Europe. I am certain that the success of this exhibition will lead to the colony insisting upon embarking in a large international exhibition at Auckland five years hence, when prosperity is thoroughly restored, just as the good effects of Joubert and Twopeny's Exhibition at Adelaide, in ISSI, induced South Australia to hold a large International Jubilee Exhibition last year. The promoters of tho Dunedin Exhibition do nob ask money assistance from Auckland, but merely co-operation in the Exhibition, and to join in asking the Government authority to obtain exhibits from the sister colonies, especially Canada, and British pictures and works of art, as well as to make a representative colonial collection of minerals, and to illustrate the early history of the colony, Maori life, &c., so that the Exhibition may be a thoroughly colonial and not a merely local affair.