BIG EXHIBITION.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20365, 24 July 1934, Page 8

BIG EXHIBITION.

Many Countries to Take Part. BRUSSELS, June 19. Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Holland, Czechoslovakia, Sweden, Norway, Poland, the United States and Brazil are among those who will contribute to make the World Fair at Brussels next year one of the finest exhibitions ever held in Europe. The Exhibition will be held on 140 acres of sloping ground, near the royal residence of Laeken, in what may be considered the greenest part of the delightfully green outskirts of Brussels. In the centre of the Exhibition ground, visitors will enjoy a seventeen-acre wood which is to become a public park later. Lakes and fountains, and masses of flowers, will add to the beauty of the site. Among the buildings there will be a four-acre concrete hall—the huge steel carcase of which is being gaped at by hundreds of passers-by every day—a concert hall for 3500 people, and a museum built on ultra-modern lines. The large hall—the largest in Europe —has a striking arcade, about 350 ft in width. It will contain a small railway line and a model railway station, the marble peristyle of which is to be turned into an “ ideal ” booking, registration and reference office. The thousands of visitors who are expected daily will be able to take tickets, register luggage and secure information in this model railway station, where quick service and efficiency will be the main features. The tickets thus taken will prove unexpected!/ valuable; they are, in fact, to be lottery tickets, the winning numbers representing a free pass on about 150 miles on the Belgian railways, or on the Ostend-Dover line.