HOSTESSES AT EXHIBITION

Grey River Argus, 8 November 1939, Page 9

HOSTESSES AT EXHIBITION

SLX GIRLS FOR AUSTRALIAN PAVILION. WELLINGTON, November 6. To-day, six Australian girls start duty at the Australian Pavilion so that they will be fully prepared to act as hostesses on opening day, next Wednesday. _ The Commercial Intelligence Officer of the Australian Pepartment of Commerce, Mr. Ullrich Ellis, who is i installing the exhibit, is giving them a course of training so that they will be fully capable of answering the numerous enquiries which it is anticipated will be submitted to them by visitors to the pavilion during the Exhibition. Most of the girls were already resident in New Zealand at the time of Iheir appointment. The Australian Pavilion has been equipped by the Department of Commerce with a comprehensive Information Service, which * includes bulletins on a wide range of subjects —from the history of Australian aviation to the development of secondary industries. | Just inside the entrance doors in the lofty foyer is an enquiry bureau pannelled in waxed Australian walnut. I The hostesses will be attired m specially designed attractive uniforms.

UNUSUAL SCULPTURE. Dominating the central cottit in the fine United Kingdom Pavilion building at the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, is the sculptured I figure, larger than life-size, by Maurice Lambert. The theme of the building is communications and transport and the figure has been conceived as a symtbol of power-reaching the earth from an unKnown source. It is an unsuftl work and is bound to cause a great deal of comment from visitors io the pavilion, to whom this figure, modelled in the traditions of the modern school of sculpture, / will be a new artistic experience. The work is in the form of a winged figure alighting on the earth and holding between its outstretched hands spindled-shaped forms, symbolical of energy, from which waves of powerrepresented by a metallic spiral---sweep down on and encompass the globe. Though the figure has orthodox facial features, the body, arms and legs are distorted to lend added strength to the design. The figure’s arms are almost as thick as its thighs; it has disproportionately large hands and feet and a slim trunk and hips. The figure’s feet are touching a globe, and between the large hands are held the spindle-shaped forms, from which the waves of power in the form of winding strips curve down to the globe beneath. The figure is excellently placed in an ideal setting for sculpture and its unsual proportions make it a striking feature in the pavilion—as indeed it is intended to be. The interior of the United Kingdom Pavilion is almost complete, and in a few days the arrangement and display of its many hundreds of models will be ready for opening day. These include ships, aeroplanes, locomotives and motor-cars, and in each of these four sections is traced the development and progress of transport from the very first days to modern t’mes.'