AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23333, 27 October 1937, Page 10

AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE

THE WORLD'S BIGGEST EXHIBITION The largest and most ambitious exhibition in history, costing more than £25,000,000, is to be opened on Long Island, New York, on April 30, 1939, to celebrate the 150th anniversary, of the inauguration of George Washington as the first President of the United Stcitcs Stretching for 3J miles from Flushinn Bay to Kew Gardens, the site for the New York World's Fair covers 1216 acres of land and water. # The erection of administration and exhibit buildings and ore-fair development will require £6,000 000 toward which a bond issue of £5,500,000 is being made. The State and City of New York and the Federal Government are to expend £7,000,0C0, and it is expected that foreign Governments and commercial and private exhibitors will spend about £12.000,000 on buildings and exhibits. . The fair authorities anticipate that 50,000,000 people will visit the fa r in 1939, and they are preparing facilities for handling a maximum of 800.000 people on any one day Building has begun and is toi be finished by the beginning of 1939. This will leave four months for internal decorations and the final organisation of this colossal project.