AMUSEMENT PARK AT EXHIBITION

Southland Times, Issue 23650, 27 October 1938, Page 4

AMUSEMENT PARK AT EXHIBITION

English Company Has Concession AREA OF 10 ACRES TO BE COVERED , (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, October 26. Details of the proposed amusements park at the New Zealand centennial exhibition were given to day by Mr Henry Seff, director of an English company which has been, negotiating with file exhibition management for concessionary rights to erect and ruri the park. He said it would cost £lOO,OOO to £150,000 and would contain many devices never before seen in the Southern Hemisphere. Mr Seff said that as his company, a specialist in all kinds of tubular steel amusement devices, had obtained a concession from the exhibition management, he intended to leave Wellington today for Auckland to connect with the Monterey, returning to England from Sydney, as he had come over, by air. He was returning to England to conclude arrangements for many of the amusements and to make ready for the shipment and assembly of the devices. The park would be called Playland. It would cover about 10 acres, in addition to one acre devoted to Kiddies’ Playland, where children could amuse themselves in safety with miniature reproductions of the various devices. “It is intended to .spend between £lOO,OOO and £150,000 to make the park at the centennial celebrations comparable with the best in the world,” he ,said. “It will be unique in that it will be the first in the world constructed principally of tubular steel.” While in England he hoped to complete a contract with a big troop of midgets, none more than three feet high, to come to the exhibition, in which case a Midget Town would be erected in the amusement park. Another feature, would be a miniature, or children’s railway, running right round the park and carrying passengers. It would be a working model pf a real railway system.