PANAMA EXPOSITION

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8811, 14 August 1914, Page 8

PANAMA EXPOSITION

CONTRACT FOR AUSTRALIAN BUILDING. From Onr' Special Correspondent. SAN FRANCISCO, July fO. The contract tor the Australian building at the Panama-Pacific ' Exposition has just, been- Jet to a San hTancisco firm. The price for the building will be about £10,950. ■ The eites 'for the buildings of the iCfemmonwealth and for Eow Zealand wall be formally chosen, and the ground broken, on July 23rd. The authorities of the Panama-Pacific have arranged .an elalorato programme for this occasion. At noon there will he a luncheon at the Palace Hotel, given in honour of Mr Niel - Nielsen. Australian Commissioner, and Hr Edmund Clifton, Commissioner from New Zealand. The hosts at this luncheon will be President C. C. Moore, (of Ihe Exposition company, aid the directors. After this. the party will go to the Exposition grounds, where Mr Nielson and Mr Clifton will turn the first spade of earth, with appropriate speeches and ceremonies. . There was a time when an occasion of this sort was marked by a parade of the United States troops at the Presidio, which immediately adjoins the - Exposition grounds, but this feature is now minimised for the reason that most of the United States army, with the exception of the Coast Artillery, is scattered along the Mexican border. The sites of the' Australian and New Zealand buildings are among the most advantageous on the grounds. They are just opposite to. thaf of the French Government and are immediately south of the Palace of Fine Arts.