AID TO WELLINGTON

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 63, 11 September 1937, Page 10

AID TO WELLINGTON

GLASGOW EXHIBITION

DETAILED PLANS FOR STUDY

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, August 11.

Detailed plans of next year's Empire Exhibition at Glasgow are being sent to Wellington in connection with the Centenary Exhibition in 1940. Mr. Charles Todd has completed negotiations in Glasgow. . .

"We in New Zealand can learn a great deal from the preparations you are making," said Mr. Todd, in an interview in Glasgow. "Floodlighting and fountains in particular have improved enormously since last we held an exhibition, and as both will be used extensively at Bellahouston, we are glad to have the opportunity of studying the plans. We are also interested in the general lay-out and the amusement park. ■ • • . "I have had considerable experience of exhibitions, having been connected with two in New Zealand, and having studied others in Paris and the United States, and I have not the slightest hesitation in saying that the prospects for the Empire Exhibition are of the very best. I have seen the site, the plans, and the specifications. They are excellent. Bellahouston Hill, rising from the centre of the grounds, is a lucky provision of Nature. I was sent to Scotland to seek information^ and I have got it."

Mr. Todd estimates that the attendance at Bellahouston should be at least 20,000,000.

Major A. A. Longden has been appointed director of art. The Palace of Arts in-Glasgow, is.to be a permanent building. At the close of the exihibition it will pass into the possession of the Glasgow Corporation. Major Longden, who has recently retired from the position of art adviser to the Department of Overseas Trade, was responsible for the exhibitions of Dutch, Italian, Persian, raid Chinese art at Burlington House, and he is well known in New 2ealand.