THE LIVERPOOL COLONIAL EXHIBITION.

Otago Witness, Issue 2660, 8 March 1905, Page 43

THE LIVERPOOL COLONIAL EXHIBITION.

(Fkom Otjb Own Correspondent.)

LONDON. January 21.

On Wednesday the Liverpool Colonial Exhibition, at which New Zealand is exhibiting, was reopened, after having been closed for a few days.

In opening the exhibition on that day, i the Agent-geneial for New Zealand thanked rhj> authorities for allowing him to take , part in the holding of such a succes?ful enterprise as that admitedly had proved. He had hardly hoped to see anything so bright, so busy, s > well-attended, so varied, and so interesting as the display that at present filled the hall. It seemed to him that their only difficulty was not the getting of material for the exhibitions in the future, but the pro^sion of sufficient space to accomodate the exhibits that would i crowd in upon chem. That exhibition

show od the immense capabilities of our Empire. What one colony could not produce another nj- able to furnish, and the only conclusion that could be come to was that there were very few wants ■which the Brit-sh Empire was not able to satisfy. It li ul been impressed upon him as a colonial cfficia.l stationed in London, and it wdv tlie opinion he had held for years, that the-\ had in this country in bygone jears been too content to exhibit colonial produce and resources in the metropolis. The time had come, he thought, when they had got to go into the provinces, into the

great industrial and commercial centres of In tho Crow n Court, on the same day, Mr the Midlands, of the West and of the North, H. C. Cameron repeated his "extremely to demonstrate what they had done toward interesting and instructive lecture," as the maintaining the position of the supremacy Liverpool Courier termed it, the subject of England among the nations of the world", being " The Resources of New Zealand." Mr Reoves added that he was glad to The court was crowded in every part, even notice the encouragement that was given the " dock "' having been utilised for seating to the \oung people to visit that exhibition, accommodation. and place at their disposal information Mr Ree'ses has secured an excellent poeiand their brethren across the sea. In tion at the Crystal Palace for the New conclusion, he said that exhibitions of that Zealand Court, when the Indian and kind were among the most successful Colonial Exhibition opens there next May, methods of stimulating trade between the and already he is recening many inquiries Mother Country and the colonies from manufacturer*.

BAZAAR HELD AT OAMARU IN AID OF THE FUNDS OF THE NEW DRILL HALL: THE COSTUMES OP THE LADIES WHO TOOK PART IX THE POSTER MARCH

(Photos by J. H. Daroux.)