LOOKING AHEAD

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 77, 1 April 1931, Page 9

LOOKING AHEAD

CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION INJ 1940

In the course of Ms address at ■ th* annual dinner of the Chamber of Com* merce last evening, the Mayor (Mr. G« A. Troup) said it was intended to havai an international exhibition in Welling* ton, opening in December, 1939. The' centenary of New Zealand would fall on 22nd January, 1940. In five years we would have to get earnestly to work; so as to get the details properly set1 out. The committee that had been set: up had already gone into many mat* ters connected with the holding of thai exhibition. First of all, there was tha liame —whether it would be a purely) New Zealand exliSbition or an international exhibition. The committee! had decided that'its name should bej "The New Zealand' Centennial Inter--national Exhi]iii*ftn." The site of thai: ! exhibition wottld be the Rongotai Parley which when completed would form auF: area of some 60 acres, between Lyalif Bay, Mi^amar, and Seatoun. The arc«| would he sufficient for such an import*^ ant evait. There would be a parade!) two ehjains in width extending rounds Lyall\Bay, which would provide amplea parking space for cars. The commitsfl tee was an touch with the High Cpm< missioner, and had .asked him tcruiakw. the exbibition known in Great Biiitaiaj aud on'the• Continent. ' '■