EMPIRE EXHIBITION

Southland Times, Issue 19101, 20 November 1923, Page 5

EMPIRE EXHIBITION

SUCCESS ASSURED HUGE ATTENDANCE EXPECTED THE TRANSPORTATION PROBLEM. (6y Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, November 17. The Duke of Devonshire, presiding at the first meeting of the Executive Council of the Empire Exhibition since the board has been re-established, said he was of opinion that there was every reason to regard the future confidently. Sir Janies Stevenson, dealing with the general progress of the Exhibition, pointed out that the board was now assured that practically every part of the Empire would be represented at Wembley, where the palaces of industries and engineering were already completed and handed over by the contractors. Sir Charles McLeod considered the financial position quite satisfactory. It was anticipated that the attendance at the Exhibition would be at least 30,000,000 people. The attainment of this number would inure the financial success of the Exhibition. EXHIBITION TRANSPORT. ROAD-RAIL SERVICE. LONDON, October 31. The vastness of the area covered by the Empire Exhibition, in w’hich there are 15 miles of roads, has led to preparation for three kinds of transport to assist sightseers. The first will be a never-stop railway, driven along by a spiral screw. The cars will travel at 24 miles an hour, and will slow down at stations, though never stopping. They will travel without drivers or conductors, and will accommodate 36 people. Forty thousand passengers will be carried each hour. The second system is that of the roadrail, which will be seen for the first time in Britain. Its chief feature is that the engine will have rubber-tyred driving wheels, whose intensified grip enables four times the ordinary load to be carried. The third system of transport will be by electric trams. BOY SCOUTS JAMBOREE. NEW ZEALAND PARTICIPATION. CHRISTCHURCH, November 19. The likelihood of New Zealand being fittingly represented at the Imperial Jamboree of Boy Scouts in connection with the British Empire Exhibition next year, has become greater since the receipt by the headquarters of applications made on behalf of Boy Scouts in different parts of the Dominion who are desirous of attending the fixture. It is understood that six applications on behalf of scouts have come to hand and that there has been received also an application from one Scouter. In respect of scouts, the applications are two from Bulls, one each from Auckland, New Plymouth, Petone and New Brighton. The application from the scouter comes from New Plymouth.