"PLAYLAND"

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 102, 27 October 1938, Page 11

"PLAYLAND"

EXHIBITION JOYS

TO COST £100,000

Available details of the arrangements that,are being made to* provide an amusement park during the Exhibition at Rongotai were given "The Post" today by Mr. Henry Seff, the director of an English company which has negotiated concessionary rights with the Exhibition Company. He will leave Auckland tomorrow by the Monterey for Australia, continuing to England by air, reaching London on November 13 approximately. Mr. Seff will return to New Zealand in February, and will supervise the erection of the devices decided upon. Tubular steel is the material of which all amusement devices will be made, and early next year the first shipment of the dissembled steel will be sent out. The park will be styled "Playland." It will cover ten acres, apart from the children's park of an acre,. where miniature examples of the devices in the adults' areas will be installed • j COMPREHENSIVE AND NOVEL. "It is intended to spend between £100,000 and £150,000 to make the amusement park at the Centennial celebrations comparable with the best in the world," said Mr. Seff. "It will be unique inasmuch as it will be the first complete amusement park in the world erected principally of tubular steel. There will be thrills and novelties of all descriptions for all ages, including a super cyclone 'coaster' ride, speedboats, racing motor-cars, a crazy house complete with-the laughing sailor, wtiiehL nearly a million visitors have seen at the Empire Exhibition in Glasgow, the latest dodgem cars, Jack and Jill Went up the Hill, fun house, flying scooters, ghost trains, the Lambeth Walk, swerving falcons, the new whip, big wheel, loop the loop, strataship, and amusements of all types to suit all ages, and all will be electrically! driven." . Mr Seff is organiser for the British amusements trade fair, which is one reason why he is returning to England. At this fair devices are seen for the first time, and amongst the new ones he hopes to secure the best for New Zealand Centennial Exhibition. "I may substitute some of the devices originally proposed for the very latest seen at this fair, but only if they strictly satisfy requirements, and are outstanding. Every device will be the latest of its kind, and many of them have never before been seen in New Zealand," said Mr. Seff. . . An attraction will be a miniature working railway to carry children. M? Seff hopes to secure a big troupe of midgets, none over three feet.