EMPIRE EXHIBITION
PREPARATIONS AT GLASGOW MAGNITUDE OF ENTERPRISE! [FROM OtTB OWN CORMSMJMMST] LONDON. Not. 37 So keen has been the demand M space at next year'B Empire at Glasgow that the organisers are fin® l ing it necessary to make preparstafl®* on a large scale. The exhibition*** occupy 175 acres and will <«st dire«flj and indirectly over £10,000,000. The ** tendance is expected to be between 15,000,000 and 20,000,000. Tho people of Great Britain ba*» backed the enterprise with a g u *^ nl S fund of £700,000. ,It will contain W palaces and pavilions and scores _ smaller pavilions. Parking B P ftCe been provided for 10,000 cars, * B<l ., internal system of touring cars tor exhibition" is being arranged. , The services of gas, electricity, and water installed are large enoog to supply a city of 500,000 Ten sub-stations will distribute tricity through 13 miles of ground cables and 240 miles of win®B Five miles of new roads have made/
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22916, 20 December 1937, Page 8
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157EMPIRE EXHIBITION New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22916, 20 December 1937, Page 8
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