THE EXHIBITION.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18456, 10 August 1925, Page 7

THE EXHIBITION.

NEW ZEALAND'S BIGGEST EFFORT. MANY ATTRACTIONS. No cinema, no radio, no aeroplanes, automobiles more • scarce than sovereigns now are—a strange world it sounds, and it is a surprise to look back and realise that it was this out-of-date world' that waa on view at the last International Exhibition in New Zealand.

The Now' Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, which the Governor-General, Sir Cnarles .bergusson, will open in Uupedia on November 17th, .belongs to the JNew world,, and. for this reason will bo as much in advance of its predecessors as 1925 is ahead of 1907. It will be the greatest Exhibition ever held in flew Zealand, with its 4en miles of exhibit stands, permanent Art trallery, ' fine Stadium, and 25 acres of amusement zone. ; It will also be the most spectacular and most interesting, because it belong to the world of . 19251 and speaks ita language. At the head of the Grand Court, a magnificent show way over 300 yards long with lagoons and fountains, and bright gardens, stands the Festival Ha'l, which can easily seat the entire population of a town of 2500 , inhabitants, • surmounted by the big dome which dominates the whole scene. At night a thousand lamps will turn the Court and Hall into a fairyland of rare beauty, but it will be real and not just a dream. Seven huge pavilions with half a million square feet of floor space will house the exhibits. Behind the Canadian Court, picturing life and industry in, a hundred different forms, .from the .Pacific to the Atlantic and from the Great Lakes into the dim distance of the Canadian Arctic, visitors will find fuzzy-topped Fijians brewing iava. In the big British Pavilion they will see the piant map of the world from Wembley with Kipling's "Big Steamers" voyaging to and from over the Seven Seas as they go about the Empire's business. In the Australian Court they will be impressed by the strange association of the oldest living aboriginal race with the modern civilisation of Pitt and Collins streets, and the variety of the Island Continent's industries from ■ pearl fishing to the making of the harvesters that cut and thresh and bag the crops in one operation on Australia's great wheat fields.

In ail Art Gallery with 10,000 s<j. ft. of wall space, art lovers •will find the finest pictures and statuary from Britain, France and America. In the Festival Hall there will be a rew attraction every other night—concerts by the Exhibition Choir of 500 voices, comic , opera, Galsworthy and Milne, dances, and competitions—and somewhere every the music of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders' Military Band specially engaged at enormous coat for the full term of the Exhibition. In the Amusement zone visitors will, be able to experience a new sensation 'every time they visit the Exhibition —on the Scenic Railway, the Whip, the Caterpillar, Chair o' Plane and other novel devices guaranteed to maie the gouty forget their miseries. The fine Stadium will witness championship meetings for sports of every kind, with the biggest prize money ever offered in New Zealand. In fact, there will bo no end to the wonders of the Exhibition till the Exhibition itself ends. Everyone will be there sometime : the wise ones, as soon as they know when they will be able to join in the great Carnival, will write without delay to the Exhibition Accommodation Bureau, Octagon, IHjnedin, for details of the guaranteed accommodation at very reasonable rates, which the Bureau is ready to book for visitors.