A PREVIEW

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 108, 3 November 1939, Page 9

A PREVIEW

GOVERNMENT COURT

MINISTER'S VISIT

In company with the Minister of Industries and Commerce (the Hon. D. G. Sullivan), heads of Departments represented in the Government Court at the Exhibition and also the contractors ran the rule over the court and its exhibits in a preview held this afternoon. The programme provided for an address by the Minister and a reply by Mr. F. Johnson, chairman of the Government Court committee, and a presentation to the Minister by the floor foreman, on behalf of the workmen in the court, of a lampshade of New Zealand materials used on the job. The preparation for trie representation of Government Departments at the Exhibition goes back to October. 1937. In that month a meeting of permanent heads of Departments was convened by the Minister o| Industries and Commerce, and at that meeting a committee was formed to go into the ques. tion of the Government Court and the exhibits. The stage has now been reached when the whole job is all but finished. There is still a little work to be done here and there, but everything will be ready in this court by opening day. And that applies also, according to indications today, to the greater part of the Exhibition as a whole. There will undoubtedly be a great show on opening day, far exceeding in scale and completeness what appeared possible only a few weeks ago. Long hours have been worked to make this possible, and good organisation has also played an important part, a fact which was mentioned today by Mr. R. C. Love, manager of the Fletcher and Love Company, contractors for the Exhibition buildings and many of the individual stands, j Of the very greatest importance, he said, had been the joinery factory over j in the .north-eastern corner of the grounds. Without that factory it wo.uld have been impossible to handle the great amount of work there had been to do in the last few weeks. Although the factory would still be there on opening day it really had been, and still was, the heart of their organisation. Within a day or two after the opening the machinery would be dismantled and the factory removed, and this would enable the children's play area to be completed.