EXHIBITION PLANS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 95, 22 March 1939, Page 12

EXHIBITION PLANS

VENUE OF CONFERENCES. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, March 21. The Centennial Exhibition authorities hope to make the exhibition promises at ttongotai the scene of as many as possible of the many important congresses and conferences that will he held in Wellington during the Centennial celebrations. The general manager (Air C. P. Hainsworth) said to-day that from now onward they would be prepared to consider dates for the. purpose of arranging such fixtures. Every laeilit.y would lie provided. The assembly hall was equipped with a stage and a cinema screen, anterooms, a restaurant, and every facility for the entertainment of delegates. In addition, many sports fixtures, championships and important matches are being held in Wellington at that time. A special sports committee has been set up in conjunction with the exhibition authorities to co-ordinate the times and places. In .addition, it is hoped to make the exhibition the centre of many other types of social activity. Requests have been received from various interested bodies anxious to make use of the festival hall for special displays, such as lolk-daneing. Recommendations are being made by the music and entertainments committee to the board of directors that a number of specialised short-period exhibitions of various kinds should ho arranged, and suggested subjects are model engineering, model aeroplanes, sketch club and camera club work. This proposal was decided upon by the entertainments committee at a meeting last Friday. It has yet to he considered by the directors to whose approval it is subject. In addition to these activities, an extremely varied and interesting programme of lectures, talks and demonstrations on many subjects is being arranged by the women’s section.