EMPIRE EXHIBITION

Evening Star, Issue 18810, 8 December 1924, Page 5

EMPIRE EXHIBITION

PLANS FOR NEXT YEAR. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON. December 5. The Wembley Executive added the Duke of Devonshire'and Mr J. XL Thomas (exSneretary of State for the Colonies) to the Board of Management, The High _ Commissioners will nominate the dominions’ representative, and probably Sir James Allen will be chosen. Seventy per cent of Die guarantors have already renewed their offers. Among the new features will be an electric garden city, including a new air purification system.—A. and N.Z. Cable. PROSPECTS FOR 1925. LONDON, November 26. Dcinils of the finances of the Empire Exhibition show that the capital expenditure totalled £2,950,000, and the nroliininary and running expenses £850,000. The receipts amounted to £2,100,000, leaving a deficiency of £1,700,000. It is estimated that the running expenses for 1925, including substantial advances to the dominions, will absorb £400,000, which the British Government has Agreed to guarantee. The Exhibition in 1925 will require to earn only £1,700,000 to square accounts, as the assets will be set against any deficiency. Major E. A*. Belcher, assistant general manager of the Exhibition, hopes to reorganise the civil hall section, and is inviting Sydney. Melbourne, Wcbingion, Auckland, Cape Town, Durban, Ottawa, Toronto, and other cities to participate in a ton days’ display of municipal, industrial, and" housing resources. The English cities, according to Major Belcher, had found that their participation in 1924 had been an excellent means of establishing business connections with the dominions. Hitherto the dominions’ propaganda in Britain had mainly been connected with land attractions, and it had ignored the developments of the chief cities, which in some respects wore superior to European cities. Iho display would enable them to attract capital for mnmifacturing developments, besides allowing a comparison to be drawn with other cities of the Empire. Tho Australian High Commissioner, Sir Joseph Cook, in his reply to a letter from the Prince of Wales praising the excellence of the Australian exhibition at Wembley, said that Australians were deeply sensible of tho Prince’s great partin tho success o? the Exhibition. The Prince’s keen interest, said Sir Joseph, afforded continual encouragement to the exhibitors.