THE EXHIBITION

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 24, 28 July 1939, Page 11

THE EXHIBITION

P, AND T. DISPLAY

FACILITIES FOR PUBLIC

Details of the ekhibits to be displayed by the Post and Telegraph Department at the Centennial Exhibition are given in the annual report of the Postmaster-General / (the Hon.. F. Jones), which was tabled in the House of Representatives today.

"In a separate court there will be many interesting exhibits illustrative of the activities of the Department," states the report. "These will include the following:—

"A 'Pageant of Progress,' in which the development of the Deparijmerit throughput the years will be 'illustrated strikingly by a succession of cut-outs and models moving across the front of a cinematograph screen, on which will be shown, I3y way of contrast, modern methods of work and up-to-date equipment.

"A 'mechanical postal map showing Empire and other air-mail services.

"A relief model illustrating the Cook Strait communication services. i "A radio-telegraph transmitter. "A 'magic dial' • (showing how ultrashort radio waves are used for com-1 munication purposes). "A radio-telephone channel in miniature. .'. -••■ ■- .... .'■'. .;■. ; -■-.■! !. "Telegraph and telephone apparatus (historic and modern).. "Telephone line construction equipment. ■ "■' ' '■ "A small private automatic telephone exchange. "At intervals departmental activities will be illustrated by cinematograph films iri the main cinema hall at the Exhibition." t , ■''.'....-..'

For the .convenience of the public, the Department will" conduct a workLing office with' postal, telegraph, telej phone, money order, and savings bank facilities at the Exhibition.: Attached to the bfflce will be a philatelic bureau and stamp exhibition. A feature of the1 telephonic facilijties to be provided at the Exhibition I will be the public coin-in-the v *slot teleI phones, provision having been made for the installation of aip to fifty at strategic points in the Exhibition buldings and grounds. '