CORK —The Exhibition.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 3, 15 January 1903, Page 9

CORK —The Exhibition.

At a meeting of the executive committee of the Cork International Exhibition the secretary read the balancesheet and statement of accounts, which showed that the total expenditure was £55,340 16s 7d, and the total receipts £61,519 8s lOd, leaving a net balance of .£.6178 12s 3d. This credit balance did not include buildings, water chute, organ, electric light fittings furniture, etc, the estimated value of which is £5000. Ho mentioned that the admissions were from opening day to the closing 1,409,448. The Lord Mayor said, as one very intiinato with the working of the undertaking, they had reason one and all to congratulate themselves, and whatever share they would apportion to him ho had always said it was the executive committee first, and the people of Ireland alter that had brought the undertaking to a conclusion that they might feel proud of. Apart from the financial success of it, they never lost sight of tho main obiect for which it was started, viz . to lift up their languishing industries, to rivet the people's mind on the fact that they must be up and doing, and educate themselves if they wanted to bo in the industrial race for life. They had done more towards starting a proper spirit, a proper national spirit, as to the duties of the people than any community in Ireland. They would publish their accounts to-morrow, and they would hold up their heads against am- man, and as a Homo Ruler he took pride in saying that they were able to do such things in Cork. Ho believed that when their statement was read in Dublin, Belfast, and abroad it would do more to make next year's exhibition a greater success than this year's than any amount of speech-mak-ing. The next business on the agenda was to vote a sum of £3000 for tho purchase of the Shrubberies grounds for tho benefit of the people of Cork, and tho Lord Mayor, in moving a motion to this effect, said that they always hoped that one of tho results they could leavo after them for all time was that they would be so successful as to secure the grounds for a public park.