AN OBJECT LESSON IN ACHIEVEMENT.

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

AN OBJECT LESSON IN ACHIEVEMENT.

DEFINITE RESULTS ANTICIPATED. Mr James Hogg, chairman of the New Zealand Secondary Industries Court, summarises the results of the Exhibition in thj following terms: — The success of the Exhibition has been phenomenal, and the number of visitors beyond anything anticipated. Great friendliness has marked the relations of all courts and sections, and the sucess of the Exhibition has been so much the greater through the participation on a large scale of Great Britain and overseas dominions. The manufacturers of the Dominion should be well satisfied with their efforts, and definite and lasting results should follow. I believe that 50 per cent, of the public of New Zealand never realised before this Exhibition the extent and value of the secondary industries or the quality of the goods being produced in the country. The note of trade vithin the Empire has been sounded, and a call to purchase “New Zeaalnd goods first” and then Empire goods has been made from many quarters. If the public gives its practical support to these calls the Exhibition will have served a useful purpose. The educational side appears to have been one of the greatest factors in the Exhibition, and one which is also likely to bring the most lasting and beneficial results. The thousands of young people and children who have passed through the v|rious courts must have had the spirit of Empire quickened in their minds t>y a survey of the British Empire exhibit. And this appreciation of Empire must have been increased by a tour ' the courts of Canada, Australia, and Fiji, depicting the commercial resources »ri the Empire. And, finally, the impressions gained by the children in the New Zealand Secondary Industries Court should lead to the coming generation giving greater support to goods produced in the Dominion.