AMUSEMENT PARK AT N.Z. EXHIBITION

Southland Times, Issue 23634, 8 October 1938, Page 15

AMUSEMENT PARK AT N.Z. EXHIBITION

FAIR GROUND DEVICES OF MODERN TYPE (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, October 7. The directors of the New Zealand centennial exhibition have decided, subject to agreement, to grant the rights of running an amusement park at the exhibition to an English firm, Tubular Constructions Limited, , a company specializing in the erection of exhibition and fair ground devices of the most modem type. The director of the firm, Mr Henry Seff, is at present in Wellington, having flown out from England specially to negotiate with the exhibition directors. Although the running of the park and its erection will be entirely in the hands of the concessionary , company, it is the intention of the directors and of Mr Seff that consideration should be given to all applicants who desire space in the park for really first-class amusements, -games and so un. The principal devices, however, will number about eight and will be erected by the concessionary company. Their exact nature will be determined by Mr Seff, in consultation with the exhibition directors, and will be specified in an agreement to be made early next week. Mr Charles Hainsworth, manager of the Exhibition Company, said today the park would, he was confident, he vastly superior, to anything yet seen in the southern hemisphere. The main device would be a mountain railway some 70 feet high, and more than 100 feet long. People would be taken up to the summit by power in small carriages, and would run down by gravity. It would have a high factor of safety, yet would provide a real thrill. The amusements park at the exhibition will be situated between the main buildings and Rongotai College. It will comprise, in all, about 10 acres and will be one of the first features of the exhibition seen by visitors approaching Rongotai, its lofty scenic railways and other monstrous devices standing high above the rooftops of residential bungalows.