TRAVEL CIRCLE

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 183, 30 April 1940, Page 4

TRAVEL CIRCLE

First Meeting For Year Of E.S.U. Members The first meeting for the year of the English Speaking Union travel circle was held in AVelington last night, when the speaker was Air. G. 11. Meadmore, director-general of Hie United Kingdom pavilion at the Centennial Exhibition. Air. Meadmore spoke of his work with international and Empire exhibitions and outlined the growth and development of Hie British Industries Fair. He said that his department bad, during the past few years, been coping with a very full programme of exhibition work, participating in Paris in 1937, Canada and Glasgow in 1938 and the World’s Fair in New York and the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition in 1939. The British Industries Fair first opened in 1915, when merchandise, habitually bought from foreign and at the time, enemy countries, was collected and displayed before British manufacturers and buyers in the hope that they could arrange classes of similar goods to bo manufactured iu England. The plan was satisfactory and the fair which opened with a floor space of 88,000 square feet had grown in 25 years till it now covered a floor space of 830,000 square feet. The fair was purely national, only British manufacturers exhibiting. Therefore buyers were sure that goods bought, there could not be obtained elsewhere. Air. Aleadmore spoke of the gracious support given to this annual display by all members of the royal family, Queen Alary having visited it on 38 occasions.

Air. Frank Pears, chairman of tlie circle, welcomed those present and Air. R. G. C. Ffitcli, chairman of the executive, proposed tlie vote of thanks to the speaker for his address. Supper was served.