THE EXHIBITION

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 146, 17 December 1937, Page 10

THE EXHIBITION

OVERSEAS INFORMATION

MR. CHARLES TODD BACK

On his visit overseas from which he returned yesterday afternoon, by the Rangitane, Mr. Charles Todd, of Wellington, deputy-chairman of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition Company, made a point of visiting the Paris Exhibition, and also interviewing the officials of the Glasgow Exhibition, to be held next year. In an interview, Mr. Todd said that he felt that the information he had been able to gather at Glasgow would be of advantage in connection with the National Exhibition at Wellington.

Mr. Todd, who was accompanied by Mrs. Todd, had been away about eight months. He went Home for the Coronation and was one of the New Zealanders present at the Rotary Conference at Nice. Mr. Todd visited Northern Italy and spent a week or two in Switzerland at St. Moritz. From there he went to Paris and had a few days at the exhibition there before going to Scotland, where he went into exhibition matters with the . executive of the Glasgow 'Exhibition and' particularly with the manager, Captain Graham, whom he had met in New Zealand when he was representing the British Government at the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition in Dunedin in 1925-26. The information Captain Graham and the executive were able to give him as to the layout for the Glasgow' and the entertainment section, etc., would be of great advantage to the exhibition project here. ■ . • . .. ' '

The Glasgow Exhibition, said Mr. Todd, would be held at Bellahouston Park, a wonderful site, within two and a half miles from the centre of Glasgow. There was an eminence in the centre of the ground which lent itself admirably to the purpose of an exhibition. Special preparations were.being made by the railway companies to make the project a huge success.

From the point of view of information to be had of value in New Zealand, he was very disappointed with the Paris .Exhibition.