GLASGOW EXHIBITION
MAIN PAVILIONS COMPLETED [BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.] RUGBY, April 19. All the main pavilions of the Empire Exhibition at Glasgow are now practically finished and workmen are engaged night and day to ensure that when the King and Queen visit Bellahouston Park for the opening ceremony on May 3 they will see a completed exhibition. The exhibits are already being arranged in some of the main pavilions, and notably so in the palaces of engineering and the two pavilions of industry. Good progress is being made in the Dominions’ pavilions, where the mural decorations will be illustrative of the countries whose exhibits are shown. The Tower of the Empire, which is the commanding feature of the exhibition grounds, has been completed, and lifts have been installed, and the amusement park will be ready for the earliest visitors. RAILWAY SERVICES. [BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS] , RUGBY, April 20.
In connection with, the' Empire Exhibition at Glasgow, the railway companies have planned special arrangements for dealing with visitors. In addition to augmented express services from London, providing 22 departures in each 24 hours, over 2500 special trains will be run for excursionists and organised parties, estimated! to aggregate over 1,000,000 passengers.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 April 1938, Page 7
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