EMPIRE TO HELP

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 49, 26 August 1938, Page 9

EMPIRE TO HELP

N.Z. EXHIBITION

MANAGER'S MISSION ABROAD

MOST SUCCESSFUL

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SYDNEY, August 25.

Mr. C. P. Hainsworth, manager of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, arrived here today by the Otranto and will leave for New Zealand by the Aorangi on September 1.

Outlining briefly his mission in connection with the Exhibition, Mr. Hainsworlh said he had been most successful in securing the co-opera-tion of all parts of the Empire.

The British Government Tiad definitely decided to erect its own pavilion of 50,000 square feet in extent. It would be purely a prestige display, and no commercial firms would exhibit in it.

Canada also would participate, and Mr. Hainsworth said he was expecting to hear the final decision when he returned to New Zealand. South Africa, too, had been approached, but the scope of her display was not yet known. Similarly, Australia would definitely be represented on a large scale, but the

Commonwealth Government was not yet ready to divulge the extent of its co-operation. Mr. Hainsworth said he had almost completed his negotiations with' thej Band of the Welsh Guards to be in Wellington for the full period of thej Exhibition. MANY NOVEL DEVICES. The amusement park would contain many devices not. previously seen in the Southern Hemisphere. They would be novel and up to date.

Mr. Hainsworth said that he had met and addressed representative bodies such as manufacturers' federations, chambers of commerce, and port authorities, and sought their support. He had seen the Golden Gate Exposition at San Francisco and the World's Fair at New York, and also the Glasgow Exhibition. The devices he had seen were outstanding, and there was a possibility of purchasing certain attractions from these displays.

The women's section would take a prominent place, and, with Mrs. Hainsworth, he had gained much support for it. The aim of this section would be exclusiveness rather than quantity* and the Queen had granted her patronage. The Queen had also promised to send some of her own personal property, also that of Princess Elizabeth. Queen Mary was also sending something for the display.