ADVERTISING THE EXHIBITION

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22308, 24 January 1938, Page 12

ADVERTISING THE EXHIBITION

MANAGER TO TRAVEL 30,000 MILES OVERSEAS DISPLAY S TO BE SOUGHT [THE PRESS Special Service.] WELLINGTON, January 23. Mr C. P. Hainsworth, general manager of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition Company, expects to travel at least 30,000 miles during his seven months' mission overseas on behalf of the big enterprise. His itinerary includes the principal centres of Canada, United States, England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Brussels, Paris, Colombo, and cities of Australia. He will leave Auckland by the Aorangi on Tuesday for Vancouver, and will be in America until March 26. The main purpose of the tour is to interview representatives of .governments —particularly those of Canada, Great Britain, Northern Ireland, and Australia—which have been invited by the New Zealand Government to take part in the Exhibition. Mr Hainsworth will also endeavour to interest individual firms in the staging of exhibits. He has been invited to speak as a guest of the Californian Exporters' Association at Los Angeles, and he will have similar opportunities elsewhere. The former Lord Mayor of Newcastle-on-Tyne, where Mr Hainsworth was manager of a successful exhibition in 1929, has invited him to meet leading businessmen of the city. Visit to Coney Islan In search for suitable amusement devices, Mr Hainsworth will visit Coney Island, New York, famed for the variety and novelty of its equipment for fun and frolic. He will also see the latest at Blackpool beach, well known for its progressive policy in amusements, and at the Glasgow and Paris Exhibitions. New Zealanders are assured that a satisfactory selection will be available for them. As honorary organiser of the women's section, which promises to be a very impressive feature of the exhibition, Mrs Hainsworth will accompany her husband. She has letters of introduction to important women's ox--ganisations in America, Great Britain, and Australia, and she is confident that with their help exhibits of remarkable merit 'will be assembled in Wellington.

At the recent meeting of the board of directors, Mr Hainsworth mentioned that he could undertake his tour with an easy mind, as the general position was satisfactory and the programme for p.-ospective action was well planned. He had full confidence in the dire tor's, in the various committees, and in the secretary (Colonel Avery), for energetic activity on the whole front. He also believed that the provincial executives would set themselves to organise courts which would surpass their meritorious achievements at the Dunedin Exhibition.