AUCKLAND INDUSTRIAL EXIBITION.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13328, 31 January 1912, Page 1

AUCKLAND INDUSTRIAL EXIBITION.

1 Unitkd J'reks Association.] Auckland, Jan. 30. A conference between the Auckland Chamber of Commerce and the Industrial Association was held to-day, 'flu.question of holding an exhibition in Auckland next year was discussed. The idea of holding an inter-iiational exhibition was dismissed as impracticable, and a resolution was carried affirming the disableness of holding an industrial exhibition in Auckland in 1913 to embrace manufactures from all parts of New Zealand. Tho executives'of the two bodies were constituted a Committee to take further action in the matter. It was stated that a communication had been received by the Industrial Association from the Canterbury Industrial Association in regard to the proposed exhibition at Christchurch, and that a reply had been sent stating that, as Auckland was considered to have a prior claim, the proposal could not be supported. V