A WORLD-BEATING EXHIBITION.
TOURNAMENT OF AIRSHIPS
The Pans exhibition of 1900 did not, faya Mr D. R. Francis, Governor of Missouri amd ipresidemt of tflie great World's Fair l to> be held at Sb Louis nesrt yeaj, approach ia intenesi the vast enterprise he is now or-
gu.ivis.iiwr. • •.' . Its cost will be about £8,000,000, of which tibo people of Ft. Louis themselves have contributed £1,000,000. The site of 12001 aoreo is valued at £3,000,000. Some of I&e buildin.i?» will be gigantic. Far instamoe,, the tail' of education and social ecqaomy will be. 600 ft by 400 ft, and t&e horticultural building lOODffc by 300 ft. / A feature of the exhibition, will be a tournament of airships, with prises amounting to £20,000. ■; Mr Francis complained of the apathy with which England had regarded the ecshi'bdtiou. All t-ht* countries of with tihe. exceptions of England anoVltaly^ had appoiaited commissioners to the eathdbitibn. Even) thy small Stoteg of South America had done the same.- He and i/te Choa(c aw a.j>pro*ohing th& GbvernmiMib on the matteir.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7677, 9 April 1903, Page 2
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172A WORLD-BEATING EXHIBITION. Star (Christchurch), Issue 7677, 9 April 1903, Page 2
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