BIG MOTOR SHOW.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18222, 5 November 1924, Page 3

BIG MOTOR SHOW.

OPENS ON SATURDAY. The latest and assuredly the best motor Olympia staged by the motor importers of Christchurch will be. officially declared open on Saturday evening next at 8 o'clock, and will remain in session for a full week. No effort^ is being spared to . transform King Edward Barracks, Cashel street west, into the veritable fairyland it has been for previous motor shows. The public has awakened to the tremendous potentialities of motor transport and utility, whether as car, truck, cycle,- or tractor, and Olympia offers all an unrivalled annual opportunity of learning what great strides have been made in.improving motor vehicles. ..The 31,000 square feet of space will %e utilised by 35 exhibitors of cars, trucks, and motor-cycles, and no detail has been.left unnoted in ensuring success.

• Last year over 25,000 persons visited Olvmpia, and it is confidently anticipated that this large total will be eclipsed this year. As usual, an orchestra will be in attendance at day and evening sessions.

A start is to be made with the conversion of the London telephone lines to the automatic system cf operation. Tven though the work is being started upon now, it will be long before even London can be said to have the automatic telephone. Probably before the end of 1926 two London exchanges will be purely automatic, but it is expected that it .will take 15 years to convert the whole of tho London telephone area to the system.