CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 229, 26 August 1938, Page 7

CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION.

SUCCESSFUL MISSION. EMPIRE CO-OPERATION. SYDNEY, Aug. 25. Mr C. P. Hainsworth (manager of tlie New Zealand Centennial Exhibition) arrived here to-day and leaves for New Zealand on September 1.

Outlining briefly bis mission in connection with the exhibition, Mr Hainsworth said that he had been most successful in securing the, co-operation of all parts of the Empire. The British Government had definitely decided to erect its own pavilion of 50,000 square feet in extent. It would be purely a prestige display and no commercial firms would exhibit in it. . . Canada also would participate, and Mr Hainsworth was expecting to hear the final decision when he returned to New Zealand. South Africa, too, had been approached, but the scope of her display was not yet known. Similarly Australia would definitely be represented on a large scale, but the Commonwealth Government was not yet ready to divulge the extent of its co-opera-Hainsworth said that lie had almost completed his negotiations with the Band of the Welsh Guards to be in Wellington for the full period of tlie eX Tlie t *imusenieiit park would contain many devices not previously seen >n the Southern Hemisphere, added Mi Hainsworth. They would be novel and Ul Mr hainsworth said that .had he met and addressed representative bodies such as manufacturers chambers of commerce, and port an thorities and sought their support. He had seen the Golden Gate Exposition at Sail Francisco and the World s Fail at New York ; also the Glasgow Exhibition. Tlie devices lie had seen were outstandiim and there was a possibility of purchasing certain attractions from !, n section would take a prominent place and. with Mrs HainsS he had gained much support for it’ suid Mr Hainsworth. The aim of Sis section would, he exclusiveness rather than quantity and the Queen had granted her patronage. Tlie Queen had also promised to send some of ler own personal property, also that of Piincess Elizabeth. Queen Mary was "Iso sending something for the display.