EXHIBITION’S LURE

Grey River Argus, 11 August 1925, Page 3

EXHIBITION’S LURE

GREATEST IN SIZE—UNIQUE IN ATTRACTION. No cinema, no radio, no aeroplanes, automobiles more scarce than sovereigns now are —a strange world it sounds, and it is a surprise to look back and realise that it was this out-of-date world that was on view at the last International Exhibition in New Zealand. The New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, which the Governor-General (sir Charles Fergusson) will open i.i Dunedin on November 17th, belongs tc the New World and for this reason will be as much in advance of its pre deeessor as 1925 is ahead of 1907. x. will be the greatest Exhibition evei held in New Zealand with its ten mile; of exhibit stands, permanent Art Gal lerv, fine Stadium, and amusement zoni of 25 acres. It will also be the most spectacular and most interesting be cause it belongs to the world of 192 and speaks its language. At the head of the Grand Court, < magnificent show way over 300 yard long with lagoons and fountains am bright gardens, stands the Festive Hall, which can easily seat the entin population of a town of 2,500 inhabit ants, surmounted by the big domi which dominates the whole scene. A night a thousand lamps will turn th Court and Hall into a fairyland of ran beauty, but it will be real and not jus a dream.

Seven huge pavilions with half : million square feet of floor space wil house the exhibits. Behind the Cana dian Court, picturing life and industr in a hundred different forms from tin Pacific to the Atlantic and from th< Great Lakes into the dim distance o the Canadian Arctic, visitors will firn fuzzy-topped Fijians brewing kava. I> the big British Pavilion they will se' the giant map of the world fror Wembley with Kipling’s “Big Steam era’’ voyaging to and fro over tin Seven Seas as they go about the Em pire's business. In the Australia’ Court they will be impressed by th strange association of the oldest livin' aboriginal race with the modern civil' sation of Pitt and Collins Streets, an, the variety of the Island Continent’ industries from pearl fishing to th making of the harvesters that cut an thresh and bag the crops in one open tio.i on Australia’s great wheat field

In an Art Gallery with 10,000 square j feet of wall space art lovers will firn the finest pictures and statuary fror Britain, France and America. In th. Festival Hall there will be a new at traction every other night—concerts h the Exhibition Choir of 500 voices comic opera, Galsworthy and Milne dances, and competitions—and somi where every night the music of th, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Military Band specially engaged a' enormous cost for the full term of tin Exhibition. In the Amusement Zone visitors will be able to experience a new sensatioeverv time they visit the Exhibitionon the Scenic Railway, the Whip, th' Caterpillar, Chair O’Plane and othe novel devices guaranteed to make tin gouty forget their i. iseries. The fin' ; tadium will witness ehampionshi meetings for sports of every kind wirl the biggest prize money ever offered ii New Zealand. In fact there will be no end to th' wonders of the Exhibition till the Ex 1 ibition itself ends. Everyone will b there sometime: the wise ones, ns sooas they know when they will be ahi to join in the great Carnival, will writ without delay to the Exhibition Ac com nodation Bureau. Octagon, Dun edin. for details of the guaranteed ac commodation at very reasonable rate which the Bureau is ready to book fo visitors.

“GLORIOUS NEW ZEALAND.” The big scenic film which has Loeprepared by the Government Public!” Officer under the above hi-ndi wi’ be sent on tour shortly. The file which embraces the fined scenic gem to be found in the Domini." tvgethe with such interesting subjects a: swordfishing, native bird life and othe’ nature studies, is to have a film pro.

ague in which some of New Zealand’s arly history and other features of a >- isual interest will be recorded. The picture which will be accompan cd by a lecturer represents the cream of two years’ eineuir tograplu? effort.