Exhibition Fund Up to £510,000
GLASGOW. — Donations jto tbe guarantee fund for tbe Empire Exhibition to be held in Glasgow in 1938 now bring tbe fund up to £510,000, or £10,000 more tban tbe total subscribed for tbe previous exhibition. Most of tbe guarantors are Scottisb, but when Lord Nuffield, Britisb motor magnate, was visiting tbe Motor Show in tbis city be offered to give £20,000 to tbe fund. In a reeent speecb Col. D. J. Colville, Financial Secretary to tbe Treasury, referring to tbe proposed exhibition, said it would be a great rallying ground for traders of tbis country and overseas. "I refuse," be said, " to snbscribe to tbe silly Jeremiad tbat ScotIand is in eclipse. Tbe signs are ratber of a people throwing off tbe burden of depression and going forward to new prosperity. " In sbipyards, steelworks, engineering sbops and mines tbere is steadier employment tban tbere bas been for five years, be added, and within tbe past year more tban 40,000 persons bave gone back to jobs in Scotland,
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 56, 22 March 1937, Page 14
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