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Mr. T. A. Aikman was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors, Mr. A. R. A. Levy, Vice-Chairman, and Mr. W. Mitchell, Secretary. Other members of the Board of Directors were Messrs. McCartney, Bowen, McFarlane, A. H. Ford, T. H.. Beecher, F. R. Smith, Wlliiams, Erlington and Henriques; T. H. Beecher was elected a member of each committee.
The Secretary read the following aims and objects of the Exhibition:-
1. To secure a closer relationship for the Island with industries.
2. To foster the development of industry in all the parishes of the Island, for the benefit of offering employment, to stabilize our people in the country so as to enable them to remain at home.
3. That this Exhibition hopes to create a line of industry to hand down to posterity as patent
4. To help the administration of the country.
5. To attract the attention of foreign markets.
6. To assist certain charitable institutions.
The Secretary was instructed to write to a number of prominent men - His Excellency the Governor, the Hon. Sir William Morrison, all the nominated and elected members of the Legislative Council, all the Custodes of the Island, the head of the Salvation Army, Sir Alexander Swettenham, Messrs. Cecil deCordova, Cecil B. Facey, T. P. Evelyn and E. A. Issa - asking them to become chief patrons of the exhibition.
A committee was selected to negotiate with the authorities at Sabina and Knutsford Parks about using one of those locations for the Exhibition.
The Secretary read the following aims and objects of the Exhibition:-
1. To secure a closer relationship for the Island with industries.
2. To foster the development of industry in all the parishes of the Island, for the benefit of offering employment, to stabilize our people in the country so as to enable them to remain at home.
3. That this Exhibition hopes to create a line of industry to hand down to posterity as patent
4. To help the administration of the country.
5. To attract the attention of foreign markets.
6. To assist certain charitable institutions.
The Secretary was instructed to write to a number of prominent men - His Excellency the Governor, the Hon. Sir William Morrison, all the nominated and elected members of the Legislative Council, all the Custodes of the Island, the head of the Salvation Army, Sir Alexander Swettenham, Messrs. Cecil deCordova, Cecil B. Facey, T. P. Evelyn and E. A. Issa - asking them to become chief patrons of the exhibition.
A committee was selected to negotiate with the authorities at Sabina and Knutsford Parks about using one of those locations for the Exhibition.