CORONATION EXHIBITION.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1132, 20 May 1911, Page 5

CORONATION EXHIBITION.

OPENED BY PRINCE ARTHUR. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyrisht London, May 18. Prince Arthur of Couuaught opened tho Coronation Exhibition, in tho "White City. Tho Exhibition contains remarkable illustrations of tho Empire and Empire newspapers. A NEW ZEALAND PAVILION. (Rec. May 19, 10.10 p.m.) London, May 19. Nov/ Zealand has an attractive pavilion at tho White City Exhibition. A BRITISH EMPIRE SHOW. Tho Coronation Exhibition seeks "the dominion, power, and resources of the British Empire" in a manner worthy oi the great occasion it is to celebrate. _ Jn explaining tho scope of the Exhibition some timo ago, the director, Mr. Inino Kiralfy, said: "Wo shall have no rows of show-cases; every exhibit, or collection' of exhibits, will be shown m solid build-up scenes representing tho actual country they come from. "In those settings will bo seen natives working at the particular industries of the country they represent. There will be no separate, 'villages' for the natives, each colony or protectorate will have a sapriate section, where the public will be ablo to soa the industries, the inhabitants, and their customs. Contingents of natives will bn brought from Jamaica, Borneo, Hong Kong, the Straits Settlements, Newfoundland, British Guiana, Honduras, Bermuda, Trinidad, Sierra Leone, Barbados, Gambia, Southern and Northern Nigeria, Cyprus, Uganda, Zanzibar, and tho East African Protectorate, in addition to India, Canada. Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, which will, of course, havo the biggest sections devoted 'to them.'

"The vast scope of tho undertaking may be appreciated when ono considers the great variety of tho scenery and industries to be drawn upon in the case of India alone. Already we havo agents at work in all the places I have enumerated. On the English side an interesting feature will bo the representation in a series of elaborate scenes of tho most important coronations in English history from the earliest times. . "The committee Jiave decided to set aside from tho takings of the Exhibition a sum of not less than .CSOOO, to bo devoted to tho King Edward Memorial Fund. Tho actual amount will be much greater than this. Tho money will not be kept until tho close of the Exhibition, but will be handed over each day, a portion being set aside from the day's takings."