TRIBUTE FROM AUCKLAND.

Otago Witness, Issue 3764, 4 May 1926, Page 26

TRIBUTE FROM AUCKLAND.

i EDITORIAL COMMENT. AUCKLAND, May 1. Referring to the close of the Exhibition, the Herald say 9 editorially: “The promoters of the Exhibition have the satisfaction of knowing it to have been a success which far exceeded moat expectations. Exhibits of outstanding merit came from far overseas, and the tide of visitors to flow through its gates has run into millions. It Is an undertaking of no small magnitude to stage an event of this ohara<4er. Risks, financial and otherwise, have to be run, and often the return fails by a considerable •mount to recoup the inevitable outlay. The financial result is not the whole criterion by which an exhibition is to be ijMdged. The great Empire display at

Wembley showed a heavy deficit, yet there has been no serious suggestion that its end was all a failure. Tne verdict is very much the contrary of that. It is generally understood that the Exhibition at Dunedin will produce a more satisfactory balance sheet than the most enthusiastic of its promoters expected, in addition to meeting all the other expeetaions with which it was promoted. The measure of the success attending it can be attributed to the enthusiasm and untiring efforts of those Nunedin, or, rather, Otago people, who conceived the idea of staging it. They worked to the desired end with characteristic thoroughness and energy so that they may be said to have earned the reward of an unmistakably happy outcome. They are to be congratulated on having succeeded and on having accomplished something which has been of service to their city and province, and in a broad sense to the entire Dominion.”