A HUGE SUCCESS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11046, 1 November 1921, Page 5

A HUGE SUCCESS

INDUSTRIES EXHIBITION DISPLAYS INSPECTED BY M.P.% AND SCHOOL CHILDREN. YESTERDAY AT THE TOWN HALL. “So far the Exhibition has been an unqualified success,” was an official verdict given to a “Times” representative yesterday. “There is /no doubt whatever, it has taken on with the public, for the' place is always packed. We do not know where to put the people sometimes.” The executive are thoroughly satisfied with the response the public have made, and they express their appreciation of the encouragement the community has given. It has been > remarked that the visitors are not confined to any one section of the community. It had been thought by some that the patrons of the big show would be largely business people or people of what might be called “business tendencies,” but observation leads to the conclusion that all classes of the community are interested in the country’s manufactures. MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT. Yesterday the Exhibition was closed to the general public during the day hours, and was reserved for members of Parliament and their friends, and for school children. In the evening the public were admitted. About > thirty members of Parliament visited the Exhibition yesterday, and each one spent a considerable time in going over the many displays, whioh are as w-orthy as they are varied. The point to be impresed, of course, is that everything on view is made in New Zealand. This strike® home to even the born and bred New Zealander, who is prone to -regard his country as a wonderful little agricultural country which imports almost everything that has to be manufactured. A large number of members of Parliament were out of town yesterday, and to all those who have not yet seen the exhibition invitations are to be sent to go along during the week. More are expected to-day.. The Minister for Industries and Commerce (the Hon. B. P. Lee) was among yesterday’s visitors, and this w.as not his first visit. KEEN SCHOLARS. Many hundreds ,of school children went over the Exhibition during the day hours.- M.P.’s may be keen students of the country’s secondary industries, but they are no keener than those front whom the M.P.’s of the future will be drawn. Armed with notebooks and pencils, the : scholars did the building from A to Z, and missed nothing in between. The reason for the books and pencils is that they are required to write essays on the • Exhibition, and were fitted out with. the material for noting whatever of their observations they thought fit. The idea of training the children to turn their visit to good account by requiring them to set out in the form of an essay their impressions of the Exhibition is generally reckoned an excellent one. PERTINENT QUESTIONS. An official who was in close touch with the students while they were going through the building says that with all their keenness they declined to be hurried, and! went about their work very methodically and sensibly. Questions rattled out like shots from a machine-gun, and there were very few that were not pertinent. The questions, in fact, struck at least one official os being remarkably astute and to the point, and as showing _ that there were some particularly intelligent children about. Other school children have yet to visit the Exhibition. • In the evening -large numbers of the general public visited the Town,. Hall. THE EXPRESSION OF A TRUTH. “That nations ar© interdependent—that they are dependent one upon the other—is a fact we cannot get away from,” remarked one gentleman who is keenly interested in the Exhibition, “but that is no reason why any nation should pot strive to develop its selfreliance to as high a degree as possible. The war has taught the need for that. The war has taught that in time of war it is a great blessing to live in a country whioh is self-reliant and self-oontained to a high degree. And the war has taught that in the peace which follows on the war it is that kind of country -which recovers best from the shock of Everybody realises that now, and this Exhibition has come at a most opportune time, for it exactly expresses that truth.” HIGH PRAISE FOR EXHIBITION. FROM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. The excellence of the “Made in New Zealand Exhibition” at the Town Hall was referred to by the president of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce at yesterday’e meeting of that body. The general public, he said, did not realise what a varietV of articles could be produced in the Dominion, and to these especially the exhibition must be particularly interesting and instructive. On the motion of the chairman the chamber derided to congratulate, the Industrial Association upon the success of the exhibition, and the great variety of goods displayed.

NO-RUBBING LAUNDRY HELP

AND OTHER HOME NECESSITIES. Lady visitors to the Exhibition. will be keenly Interested in the excellent display staged at the Harbour. Board s Building by Messrs Thomas Finlay and Sd>n, Ltd., of Auckland, consisting or Laundry Help, Soap, Candles, Boot and Floor Polishes, and Writing Tablets. "No-Rubbing" Laundry Help has had an enviable rise into popular favour, just because it is a scientifically prepared product which materially reduces the arduous work connected with the weekly "washing-day”—'which, of course, is part, and an important part, of the regular household duties devolving upon New Zealand's womenfolk. "No-Rubbing” Laundry Help is nowused from the North Cape to the Bluff, and its manufacture maintains a busy staff of workers, engaged in the above firm's four-storied factory in Victoria Street, Auckland. Other products manufactured in the same factory are the well-known "Keep Smiling Boot and Floor Polishes. "Golden Rule” Soap and Candles, "Keep Smiling'* Pumice Soap, and "Golden Rule” Writing Tablets complete a very imposing array of most popular goods, essential in every home, deservedly so when it is realised that these splendid goods, of the very highest finish \ and quality, are made in New Zealand by New Zealanders for New Zealanders. — . Advt,