WEMBLEY ATTRACTIONS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 90, 13 October 1923, Page 14

WEMBLEY ATTRACTIONS

PREPARATIONS FOR THE GREAT

SHOW.

As you pass Wembley you see the twin towers of the Stadium towering over a fast-growing forest of girders and concrete walls where the Exhibition buildings are beginning to rise, states a recent issue of the "Manchester Guardian." Nearly two thousand men are at work, and this number will be doubled before very long. It is claimed that the Exhibition is going to beat any exhibition that was ever heard of in being complete on the opening day next April. From the constructional point of view the buildings will be interesting as showing the extraordinary things that can be done nowadays with steel and concrete. It is said that the Wembley buildings will show a greater variety in the use of concrete than has been achieved. Even the flagstaffs are made of concrete. There will be a good deal more at the Exhibition than efficient collections of machinery and Empire produce. There are going to be communities of Eastern and African natives living according to _ their own customs. There will be .Chinese families in a compound of their own, and a replica of a street in Hong Kong, with everything Chinese about it. There will be blacks from Nigeria living in little round huts, and doubtless doing their bedt to keep warm. The most complete and interesting of these strange foreign villages will be that inhabited by the Burmese, where we are promised the sight of native miners washing ior rubiea in a stream,