EXHIBITION OPENING.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 13 November 1925, Page 8

EXHIBITION OPENING.

Jf‘ HUGE WORK COMPLETED. A city, with broad streets, fin© gardens, and full electric lighting, gas. and water services—this and more is the New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition, which will be opened in Dunedin on Tuesday by the Governor-General, Sir Charles nercrusson.; The building of such a vast undertaking has been & romance in itself. All day long, for months past, the road to the exhibition has echoed with an incessant traffic, lorries piled high with metal or timber or cases of exhibits, .find private cars have hurried to and fro in lines unbroken except for City Corporaton gangs and machinery working on the tramway over which in a few davs now thousands of visitors will be passing. In the grounds and the buildings an army of tradesmen and labourers have put up buildings that are measured by the acre, built a wonderful amusement zone covering another 25 acres, and put in many miles of gas and light and water mams. In the building of the main pavilions alone over 5,000,000 superficial feet of timber were used, 67 tons of nails anti bolts and nuts, 130,000 square feet of glass, and great quantities of- other materials. % It is impossible for words to convey m a ny idea of the enormous scale of the Exhibition. Even 'to say that if the stands, were arranged in one avenue they would stretch for 10 miles or that the main pavilions together, if used as a hall, would easily seat the whole population of Greater Auckland—or that the biggest annual Dominion industrial exhibition could he scattered about one of the pavilions of the New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition —such comparisons do not help one much further forward. And it is just as difficult to convey by words any idea of tbe splendour and ] wonders of the great exhibition —of the

magnificent displays from far-away lands headed by the entrancing. British and Canadian Courts; the glorious collection of art and sculpture in the big art gallery from Britain, France, America, Australia and. our own Dominion ; the wonderful amusement park, with the thrilling scenic railway and scores of other excitjng adventures ; the unique entertainments every night in the great festival hall; the magnificent music of the historic Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders’ Military Band, brought all the way from England at enormous expense and with the special consent of the War Office; the beauty of the exhibition bv night, illuminated by thousands of fancy lamps that are reflected in the fountains of the Grand Court. It" is the chance of a lifetime, an exhibition on such an unprecedented and magnificent scale within easy reach of every person in New Zealand, and if anyone misses it he will never forgive himself. Railway fares have been greatly reduced, as will he seen from an advertisement in this issue, and first-class accommodation can be secured at reasonable rates through the Exhibition Accommodation Bureau.