SEASON TICKETS

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 127, 1 June 1938, Page 9

SEASON TICKETS

FOR THE EXHIBITION

FACILITATING PURCHASES

. Arrangments for the purchase, la advance, by instalments, of season tickets for the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition throughout the six months it will be open have been for* mulated by the directors of the Exhibition. Leading business firms and Government Departments have been asked to co-operate in enabling their employees to purchase tickets.

Season tickets will cost 30s for adults and 15s for juveniles under 16 when the Exhibition opens. They will entitle the holder to admittance whenever and as often as he pleases whila the Exhibition is open. That period, roughly six months, from November next year to April, 1940, will includa approximately 150 working days.

Agents are to be nominated in tha offices of business houses co-operating in the scheme to rcceive regular instalments of 6d or so a week from employees to enable even recipient! of small salaries to obtain season tickets.

The tickets will be made out in tha name of the holder and will not ba transferable. They will carry the signature of the holder, and if his identity is challenged on entering the Exhibition he will be asked to sign a register, which can be compared with the signature on the card. For tha convenience of season ticket holders, special turnstiles will be provided, and they will not have to queue up with those seeking cash admission at the gates.

There will be no pre-sales of tickets to the Exhibition, other than of season tickets. Admission will be by cash at the gates. It has been found in other parts of the world that this ia , the most expeditious and convenient method of handling large crowds, and that it most "nearly eliminates "gatecrashing." Strip tickets for pre-s.dle in large numbers are often copied or forged, whereas the only possible danger in the cash turnstile system is that if the man at the gate is not reliable he may slip two through the turnstile at a time and pocket the extra shilling—a slight risk at best, and easily obviated by supervision. Change boxes will be provided-for visitors, to avoid delays at the, turn* $tiles and prolonged waiting .ia queues. FAMOUS BAND AS DRAW A world-famous regimental band— which band is not yet announced— will almost certainly be brought out to provide the music at the New Zea- \ land Centennial Exhibition next year. Advice from London of the completion of thejurrangements is expected by the company's management shortly.

Realising the importance of securing I first-class music for the entertainment lof visitors from every part ot the world, the management decided to endeavour to induce one of the gailyuniformed, perfectly-drilled, and artis-tically-famous bands belonging to ■ crack English regiment to attend the Exhibition. This proposal followed the example set at - the Dunedin'Exhibition, when the band of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders was brought out from Home." It is understood the negotiations have been successful.

The cost of obtaining the,services ot such a band and defraying its expenses will probably run thousands ot pounds. 1 The fpafd, however, is likely to be one of ihe principal attractions of the Exhibition, and afterwards it will probably be sent on tour through, out the Dominion. Little of the expenditure will be directly regained, as, except perhaps in the case of special concerts, most of the playing will be done in the open air, where provision has been made for shelter in- either northerly or southerly weather, and ao. commodation will be provided'for proximately 7000 listeners.