EXHIBITION OPENING.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue LVI, 13 November 1925, Page 11

EXHIBITION OPENING.

HUGE WORK COMPLETED.

A city with broad streets, fine gardens, and full electric lighting, gas and water services—this and more is the New Zealand'and South Seas International Exhibition, which will be opened in Dunedin on Tuesday next by the Governor-Gen-eral,. Sir Charles Fergusson. The building of such a vast undertaking has been a romance in itself. All day long, for months past, the road to the Exhibition has echoed with an incessant traffic, lorries, piled high with metal or timber or cases of exhibits, and private cars, have hurried to and fro in lines unbroken excepUfor City Corporation ganga and machinery working on the tramway over ■which in a few days now thousands of Visitors will be passing. In the grounds and the buildings an army of tradesmen and labourers have put up buildings that are measured by the acre, built a wonderful amusement zone covering another 25 acres, and put in many miles of gas_ and light and water mains. ' In the building of the main pavilions alone over 5,000,000 superficial feet of timber were used, 67 tons of nails and bolts and 'nuts. 130,000 square ■ feet of glass, and great quantities of other materials. It js impossible for words to convey My idea of the enormous scale of the Exhibition. Even to say that if the 6tands were arranged in one avenue they Would stretch for ten miles, or that the main pavilions together,, if used as a lall, would easily seat the whole population of Greater Auckland—or that the biggest annual Dominion industrial exhibition could be scattered about one of the pavilions of the New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition— such comparisons do not help one much further forward. There are "displays from far away lands, headed by the British and Canadian courts; a splendid collection of art and sculpture in the big art gallery from Britain, France, America, Australia and our own Dominion; a wonderful amusement park *ith a scenic railway and scores of other exciting adventures; entertainments every night in the great festival nail; and the magnificent music of the historic Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders' Military Band.