EXHIBITION AT AUCKLAND.

Otago Witness, Issue 2981, 3 May 1911, Page 89

EXHIBITION AT AUCKLAND.

INTERNATI6NAL FAIR PROJECTED. AUCKLAND, April 26. To hold an international fair in Auckland two years hence, an exhibition bigger than any yet held in New Zealand, is the hope and ambition of certain leading ciliizens of this city. Already the Chamber of Commerce, backed by the Provincial Industrial Aesociation, has gone into the matter, and the president oi the former institution (Mr Leo Myers), interviewed to-day, outlined an interesting scheme, indicating on what lines he thinks the exposition should run. Mr Myers said the council of the Chamber of Commerce felt that the time had now arrived when another exhibition should be held in Auckland. It was 13 years ago since the last exhibition took place in the metropolitan grounds. That venture had proved a big success. The proposal to hold another exhibition in Auckland in the near future had met with universal approval. It seems to be generally recognised amongst the business men of the city'that nothing would more admirably serve to advertise the progress of Auckland and the potentialities of New Zealand in general, and Auckland province in particular, than an international fair, to be held in two or three years' time. The first suggestion had been to make the exhibition coincident with the completion of the Panama Canal, and thus manifest New Zealand interest in the culmination of one of the most ambitious engineering schemes the world has ever witnessed, and one that it was generally believed would play no unimportant part in the future commercial development of this Dominion. Further consideration, however, had convinced many of those interested that the more opportune time would be 1913, or about two years hence, a period sufficiently long from the inception of the scheme to enable its sponsors to do justice to it. The educational value of such an exhibition, Mr Myers pointed out, could not be over-estimated.