OPENED OFFICIALLY

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1020, 10 July 1930, Page 10

OPENED OFFICIALLY

CEREMONY AT SHOW SPEECHES BROADCAST With exhibitors still bustling in the outer sheds putting the finishing touches to their stalls and completing the decorations, the Mayor, Mr. George Baildon, declared the Auckland Winter Exhibition open officially at 2 p.m. yesterday. A large number of business men and their wives filled the hall set aside for lectures and for showing moving pictures during the coming week, but many thousands who were unable to attend heard the opening speeches by radio through station IYA. Other speakers were Mr. G. Finn, president of the Auckland Manufacturers’ Association, and Mr. J. T. F. Mitchell, president of the A. and P. Association, joint-presidents of the exhibition. On the platform were also the joint managers, Messrs. J. Findlay and W. F. O’Donnell, and members of the committee which had had charge of arrangements. Immediately after the singing of tli/e National Anthem, Mr. G. Finn asked the audience to stand as a mark of x-espect for the late Sir Joseph Ward. “Whatever views we may hold in politics we all have to admit that Sir Joseph Ward was the outstanding figure in politics for many years,” said Mr. Finn. “He was a man who always looked ahead and he was, in the true sense, a real statesman.” Mr. Finn then welcomed visitors to the exhibition. “We have certainly made great progress but have by no means exhausted the great potentialities of the province,” said Mr. Mitchell, who followed. He gave details of .production in various lines and of exports. He believed that in the next five or six years the changes would be even greater. DAIRY PRODUCE OUTPUT The output of dairy produce in the Auckland Province increased by 17 per cent, last season. Nojrth Auckland, with 19 per cent, increase, showing the heaviest production of any part of the Dominion. The total output of New Zealand in butter and cheese was 178.000 tons. Mr. Mitchell pointed out that prices of what might be termed raw materials are now almost what they were in 1914. In 1927 they were 35i per cent, greater than at the beginning of the war, but a fall of 6 per cent, and then of a further 13 per cent, brought values back nearly to normal again. The country could expect stabilisation and then a gradual increase in the prices