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NZ Truth, Issue 98, 4 May 1907, Page 7

N The City Council is a place where men Waste hours and keep minutes. All the ministers are very glib about the "indirect" benefit New Zealand is to derive from the recentlyUefimct Exhibition. But what about the indirect harm. There is scarcely a tradesman outside of Christchurch who has not suffered. Every per,-* son who could afford it, and hundreds who could' not, traveled to Christchurch to see the bi£ show. Many of them told the b/atchiets, barters, and storekeepers, of their local towns and village* openly that they would have to Wait for a month or two, as the Exhibition would absorb ail en Itch t coin. The Union S.S. Co., the r-romrters of Wonderland, and the Christchuirch publicans eet the most of is.,