BRITAIN LEADS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 220, 18 September 1939, Page 3

BRITAIN LEADS.

AT NEW YORK FAIR. MOST POPULAR PAVILION. PLANS FOR N.Z. CENTENNIAL. "The British pavilion at the New York World Fair has attracted more visitors than any other display at the exhibition," said Mr. A. Slierrard, finance officer of the Department of Overseas Trade, who has arrived in New Zealand to take part in the organisation of the British Court at the Centennial Exhibition in Wellington. He also paid a tribute to the New Zealand and Australian courts at New York, both of which had been definite successes. Taking the fair as a whole the attendances had been below expectations. The theme of the British pavilion was that of democracy, with Magna Charta as a central feature, he said. In its scope and variety it was the finest display ever staged by Britain in America. The British court in Wellington would include a huge map of the world, with shijws moving along the ocean trade routes, and would also show the Empire's commercial air routes. Land transport would be illustrated by rail and road vehicles of modern type. Mr. Sherrard's experience of exhibitions dates back to the Wembley display of 1924-2,"). Among the events in which he has since taken part in ail official capacity are the Autwerp Exhibition of 1929, those recently held at Johannesburg and Glasgow and a number of provincial exhibitions in tlie United Kingdom.