EMPIRE EXHIBITION

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 8, 10 July 1923, Page 5

EMPIRE EXHIBITION

PREPARATIONS IN AUSTRALIA.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

SYDNEY, 27th June. Preparations for the. Australian display at the Empire Exhibition next year ar e proceeding with great activity. "Under a Federal Commission, which is coordinating all efforts, State Commissions are busily engaged in organising industrial and other displays. Special plans are being taken to present a true, picture of rural life in Australia, witli the object of attracing immigration to the land. In New South Wales two largo dioramas showing typical, farm homes are being, constructed, and in each State the cinematograph is being largely availed of. So far Queensland has done most in this latter direction, and the pictures that have been taken should give a faithful idea of the boundless opportunities in that great State. Messrs. Raymond Longford (producer) and Bert Ives (cinematographer) have been engaged in Queensland for about a montlv taking the pictures, which will" be screened in the Cinema Theatre to be constructed in the Australian Pavilion. ' Already pictures have been taken of lifo and commerce in Brisbane, while views of tho cotton industry in the Lockyer district and in the Dawso'n Valley have been taken, together with moving pictures of the Gladstone meat' works.' The latter show all the operations at the works from the arrival of the bullocks to the loading of the meat on'the steamer Hororata for conveyance to England. A mob of 12,000 cattle on Rabene Station was also filmed, as well_ as other views which would give the British public an idea of life on a typical cattle station in Australia. .Cinema views of Brisbane and suburbs, the river reaches, and of the public and other buildings, also have been taken. A film showing the process of ginning cotton will be taken at Winstanos.- ■

■It is desired by the Queensland Commission that cinema views of State forests, Fraser Island Forestry, Mount Morgan, Gympie, Beerburrum Soldiers' Settlement, Coolangatta, etc., also should be included in the Queensland pictures. The matter of filming the Barren Falls and Cairns hinterland is under consideration.