OVERSEAS TOUR

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 87, 22 January 1938, Page 10

OVERSEAS TOUR

THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. To interview representatives of governments, particularly those of Canada, Great Britain, Northern Ireland, and Australia, which have been invited to take part in the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition (Mr C. P. Hainsworth) general manager of the exhibition company, left Wellington yesterday for Auckland, where he will leave by the Aorangi on Tuesday for Vancouver. Mr Hainsworth will be away for seven months, during which time he expects to travel at least 30,000 miles. His itinerary includes the principal centres of Canada, the Tjnited States, England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Brussels, Colombo and cities of Australia. It is said that there is already sufficient evidence of goodwill in Canada to indicate: that that -Dominion will again have a court worthy of the country’s resources and industries and it is believed that other countries will have similar displays. Mr Hainsworth will also endeavour ‘to interest individual firms in the stagring of exhibits. For this purpose he will address representative meetings of manufacturers. In a search for suitable amusement devices he will visit Coney Island, New York, Blackpool beach, and the Glasgow and Paris exhibitions. As honorary organiser of the women’s section, Mrs Hainsworth will accompany her husband.