EXHIBITORS' GRIEVANCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15496, 1 January 1914, Page 8

EXHIBITORS' GRIEVANCE.

THE MACHINERY HALL i '.',.' II POSITION NOT INDICATED. | " • ''' \ ■"> M :",'■.' ,-' v ' ■.".*■•■•• ■ ■.■■■.: ■ ijp Nineteen firms end person? who are making exhibits ini the Machinery Hall at the | Auckland Exhibition have addressed ; the i following letter to the editor. of the Niw Zealand Herald:— '■" . ■ ■ ' X % ' ' ' •''■"■ T ■';" We, die undersigned exhibitors in th« machinery couit - at ■■ the Auckland Exhibition, > wish to point out the very \ inade-! quate ■; provision made for indicating the; position of {the, above-mentioned court... j . ■?. "A. petition -has biien presented to the executive, signed ' ?>y practically, if not | Absolutely, every exhibitor in the ■?•--• ohinery court, asking that.an electric sigi be i erected :? above ; the ; entrance, or ■■-; scats < other > means ; bo employed for showing i visitors the location of the hall. ■:■ ■ *$$, "The petition- has v; not borne frns£ Personal interviews. have been . met • with scant * courtesy,. and with? your - permission we are : now : forced,,;in', the ;■ interests of our firms, to use this cur only other means of • appealing for '.'air play." ':■ [ The machinery hall ■ contains some " very interesting and many of the firms' concerned have' spent a considerable sum of money in anf anging and dressing ■opt their stalls. The ontrsnee to the court, howI ever, is not at all conspicuous,' particularly at nights, when the' largest crowds visit j tho Exhibition, and might very easily be 'missed \ by.; sightseers. The attendance jin this hall represents only a "small proportion of the people who visit the palace of industries ; and the Government courts, arid this is generally ; considered to.. be • due .to the ineffective position <& the ■machinery, Halt • . . •