EMPIRE EXHIBITION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19045, 15 December 1923, Page 9

EMPIRE EXHIBITION

KEEN DEMAND FOR SPACE. ■ PRACTICALLY AIL TAKEN. -r ' Frees Association—By Telegraph—Copycigbft LONDON, December 15; lb is officially that th«space for exhibitors at the British Empire Exhibition lias been practically all tassS, < The Palace of Industry has been - overI’' 1 ’' applied for. Only 14,601 square feet out' ’ of 501,637 square feet in the Palace oj; . Engineering has not been implied lor.—* . Reuter. INTERESTS OF AGRICULTURE. AN IMPERIAL CONFERENCE. LONDON, December 13. An Imperial Agricultural Conference initiated by the Horace 1 Fiunket Founds-! tion; which has been to fiortheu the principles of agricultural co-opefationf in the United Kingdom, has teen im eluded in the programme of the Empire! Exhibition. The Ministry of Agriculture! and the governors of the foundation ara asking through the mgh CommissioiMaa and the Agents-Gcneral, for the oversea! Governments to appoint representatives U| ! attend the conference, at which Empire;; delegations representing co-operatiye sod?, •'[; ties and federations and home and foreign "■ marketing associations will have an op-i portunity of working out- comprehensively! the problems of better business in agri-* culture. —A and N.Z. Cable. LARGE ATTENDANCE ESSENTIAL, • LONDON, November 29. Major Belcher told a special representative of the Sydney Son that a special hall, accommodating 2000 people was being erected between the Australian pavilions at Wembley, to enable the principal English critics to give publicity to) municipal development. Birmingham will show how it tackled the problems ofi water, gas, and light, and will illustrate! its town-planing, housing, sewerage, and . banking schemes. A private contractor proposes to bußd a large hostel outside the exhibition! grounds to accommodate exhibitors. s' - : The Board of Management is recervjagj : thousands of inquiries from prospective European buyers. It is estimated that an attendance o 8 300,000,000 will be necessary to cover eac- ■ penses. Excursions to the exhibition ficani every part of the United Kingdom are! being arranged.—A. and N.Z. Cable.