EMPIRE EXHIBITION

Evening Star, Issue 22448, 19 September 1936, Page 4

EMPIRE EXHIBITION

BROADCASTS FROM JOHANNESBURG Last Tuesday was an important day in South Africa, and, fpr that matter, in the Empire generally, as it was the one on which the Empire Exhibition at Johannesburg was opened. Remaining open until January 15,' 1937—a period that coincides with Johannesburg’s jubilee—the exhibition will become the shop window of the British Commonwealth of Nations, rivalling Britain’s famous Wembley. So outstanding an event was naturally given reflection in the 8.8.C.’s Empire programmes from Dayentry. A preliminary talk on the exhibition was broadcast this week, and was followed by another talk on the eve of the open ing day. On September 15 the opening ceremony was broadcast from Daventry. The progress of South Africa and of the Empire during the past 50 years is the keynote of the exhibition, which it situated in the Milner Park show grounds of the Witwatersrand Agricultural Society. Every part of the British Empire is “on show ” at the event, including the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Rhodesias, and the Bast African Dependencies, many of which have erected special pavilions to house their exhibits. The exhibition has its own railway station, police station, fire station, and banks-

French radio authorities are checking up on French announcers, who are felt bo be getting their own opinions over, not by exaggeration or falsification, but “ by delicate manipulation of the tone of voice.”