WELLINGTON EXHIBITION
KEN DEMAND FOR SPACE. A meeting of the space sub-committee in connection with the industrial exhibition to bo held in May took place last evening. All the spate on the ground floors of both buildings has been let, and none is available except in the galleries of the IT shed. Selling rights and feneral space in the gallery or the U hed can be obtained at half rates. - So great has been the , demand that the secretary of the' committee, Mr H. F. Allen, has been instructed to write to the Railway Department informing it that room cannot be found for a display of a locomotive; also to the Town Clerk thafc it will not be possible to exhibit a tram car. . TSe committee decided that in addition te The space- fees, .£lO will, be charged for selling'rights for the whole term of the exhibition—practically a fee of £1 per week. This charge was made in,lieu of a commission. “It is-marvellous," Mr Allen remarked to a “Times" reporter last night, “how applications for space came in to-day." The warning he gave to several people that unless they applied quickly they would run the risk of being shut out, has com© true. ; -
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7399, 29 March 1911, Page 6
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203WELLINGTON EXHIBITION New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7399, 29 March 1911, Page 6
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