CENTENNIAL VISITORS
ACCOM OD ATI ON PR< ffiLEM The Wellington City Corporation is negotiating with the Wellington Show Association for the conversion and use of the Winter Show building and grounds at .John street as a gigantic caravanserai to accommodate centennial visitors to Wellington. By providing sleeping quarters in the building for some 700 to 1000 people, and using the grounds as a motor camp for several hundred more, it is .expected that this scheme will play a large part in accommodating the flood of visitors who will come to .Vellington in 1939-40, to sec the exhibition and other outstanding event; if the centennial. Other buildings in the city are to be jonverted into similar but smaller hoscls, and other motor camps are to bf: established on the outskirts of Wellington.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19758, 12 October 1938, Page 7
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