Motor Olympia

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 88, 5 July 1927, Page 12

Motor Olympia

Opening Saturday Models of 1928 Auckland’s third motor Olympia will be opened to the public next Saturday at 7 p.m., the official opening by the Mayor of Auckland being at 8 p.m. The exhibition will run all next week, concluding on Saturday, July 16. Except on the opening day, the hours of admission will be from 10.30 a.m. to 10 p.m.

The work of fitting up the stands is now being proceeded with by a large gang of workmen, and the individual exhibitors are now busy preparing their displays. Everything points to the exhibition being an outstanding success, and as the promoters are making every endeavour to surpass the standards created at previous Olympias a notable display should result. A strictly harmonised scheme of decorating is being indulged in. both as regards the stands and the sheds in general. Special attention is being paid to the illuminations, and the hundreds of powerful electric lights being used will make the interior of the exhibition as bright as the broad daylight. Spacious aisles are being provided between the stands, which, in accordance with the latest overseas ideas, are not raised above floor level. A magnificent display of the very newest creations in the automobile world will be seen. Many of the models will not have been displayed previously in Auckland. The value of the exhibits will be approximately £IOO,OOO, over 100 cars alone from the world’s foremost manufacturers being shown. A number of the stands will feature interesting working exhibits. Apart from the central attraction of viewing the newest car styles, Olympia visitors are promised a musical treat. An orchestra of 12 picked instrumentalists has been engaged, under the direction of Mr. Gordon Eady. The exhibition is being held in the sheds on the Central Wharf. The area between the sheds has been completely roofed in to form a large entrance lobby, and the effect so obtained is of one huge exhibition buildExcellent arrangements have been made for visitors to park their cars, the Auckland Harbour Board having granted permission to use the whole of the adjacent space on the Central Wharf for this purpose. The Auckland City Council traffic department has also given permission to park cars outside the wharf in Quay Street. The Olympia Motor Exhibition has been promoted by the Auckland Motor Trade Association, iand the management is in the hands of an executive committee composed of Messrs. F. G. Farrell, G. W. Spragg, G. M. White, W. S. Miller, H. Grant, F. F. Laing, and S. L. Weller. The Olympia secretary is Mr. Theo J. Spry.