BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 89, 14 April 1923, Page 7

BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION

SIR JAMES ALLEN SATISFIED.

(FROU OTO OTTN CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, 27th February. Now that Sir 'William Joynaon-Hicks's report has been unanimously adopted, and the Exhibition has in effect come under the direct control of the Government, Sir James Allen considers that, the work should go forward satisfactorily and without friction.-, Several matters still require careful consideration, "but the High Commissioner is'satisfied that these can be set right by the new executive being made public.

Substantial concessions in freight rates are being made by the great shipping companies on goods sent by the Dominions and colonies for the British Empire Inhibition at Wembley next year. In most cases the basis of,the concessions is a reduction of SO per cent, on all exhibits not intended for sale, and a similar reduction on gifts or loans to the Exhibition. These concessions, which apDly to both voyages, outward and homeward, have been promised by the following shipping conferences: —Australia, Malta, and Alexandria, Straits, China and Japan, West India. Calcutta and Colombo Homeward, Atlantic, African and Gibraltar. All the railways 'of the TJnited Kingdom have granted 50 per cent, off the freight rates ruling at the time on all exhibits returned unsold.

Ma-lay is to have its own pavilion, on its own site, at Wembley, but the Government has expressed its willingness to iTna room in the pavilion for the exhibits of Mauritius and Seychelles.

(The cable news in this Issue accredited to "The Times" lias appeared in that Journal, but onto where expressly stawd Is such tuvt tlia editorial opJftCa of "l'be Time:."]