ESTATE OF £15,000

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 124, 29 May 1933, Page 7

ESTATE OF £15,000

LATE SIR THOMAS SIDEY

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, This Day. The estate of the late Sir Thomas Sidey has been sworn at £15,000.

the fair, this remarkable piece of Chinese architecture and workmanship has drawn thousands of visitors. INi GROUPS. The exhibit buildings of the fair are arranged by groups, as the agricultural group, the electrical gioup, the music group, and many others, each. of which is noteworthy from an architectural point of view. The travel and transport building, for instance, comprises a vast unwindowed hall and a colossal dome of unique suspension design; a circle of twelve steel towers suspends by cables a dome of metal the height of a twelve-storey building, and over 200 feet across, larger than the dome of St. Peter's, and with expansion joints permitting the metal plates to slide over each other and expand and contract to conform to changes in temperature, in wind velocity, and in rain or Bnow load. Interesting features of the exposition include an exact replica of Fort Dearborn, the old nucleus of Chicago, where the Indian massacre of 1812 took place near the site of the fair; a Lincoln group, with many historic, bnildings rebuilt or reproduced; a Hollywood building where pictures will be made during the exposition, and the life of the studios enacted for the benefit of visitors; buildings where motor corporations will show most of the manufacture of their cars; a group of model houses nf metal construction, embodying every up-to-the-minute improvement; a vast amusement park with entertainments new and old; and an "enchanted island" playground for the children. BYRD'S SHIP. Moored at the Bhore of Lake Michigan within the fair gro\nds is the City of New York, one of the ships which Admiral Richard Byrd used in his Antarctic expedition; on it is shown a fine exhibition of objects of interest from the south, whilo officers of the expedi< tion give lectures upon it and the Antarctic regions. During the exposition there will be provided a musical programme as fino as any there has ever been in America, and a number of national sports meetings are being held specially in Chicago as an added attraction for visitors. One of the most spectacular amusements of the fair is the "sky-ride"; two steel towers, each 600 feet high, and nearly half a mile apart, bear visitors to observation platforms at the top, while at the 200 feet, level, eight enclosed cars of aluminium and glass will travel on cables between the towers, enabling their passengers to look down upon the many buildings of the fair. One may also take a flight in a helium-filled dirigible, or' an ascent in a balloon. Motor-boats ply on Hip lake and in the lagoon, while land transport within the extensive grounds of the exposition is provided by a fleet of specially designed, long, jointed, passenger buses with accommodation for ninety passengers each.

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