BRITISH PAVILION
CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION AN‘RIVAL OF OFFICIAL (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Exhibition officer would be an apt description for Mr. A. Shcrrard, a member of the British Department of Overseas Trade, who arrived at Auckland yesterday. Since 1925 he has been _ occupied with British interests at exhibitions m half-a-dozen different countries, and he is now in New Zealand to be associated with the British court at the Centennial Exhibition in Wellington. Mr. Shcrrard began exhibition work at Wembley 14 years ago. Last year he had 10 months at the Glasgow Exhibition and until recently he could be found at the British pavilion at tho New York World’s Fair. He said the British court, at the New Zealand exhibition would not be as elaborate as that erected in New York, but it would take the form of a huge map of the world showing the air and sea routes, and animated with model aircraft, locomotives, ships and motor-vehicles. Mr. Shcrrard left for Wellington by the Limited express.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20046, 19 September 1939, Page 13
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