BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 February 1924, Page 1

BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION.

AN APPEAL FOR VISITORS. The Exhibition takes place at Wembley Park, ten minutes train ride from the heart of l.ondon. easily reached bv Lam and ’litis, and in direct rail communication with every part of Great Britain. • It will open early in April and remain open until October. Ibe Exhibition will give a complete picture of our Empire—the Home Country and the lands of romance beyond tiie seas. The Industries, Commerce, Art. Social Life and Sport of every part of the Empire will ho shown in a series of wonderful pavilions scattered over an Uii.m as lug as a large town, set among undulating hills and green slopes, with bi lts of oaks and elms and great avenue: of limes. At one point a little stream winds its way through the

grounds; at another, a broad chain of lakes makes a water-way along which ihe visitor may travel by boat from New Zealand to India.

The greatest experts in the country are busy in decking the grounds' with magnificent gardens, gay with bright ami fragrant flowers. Firms of the ti"-it rank in every industry in the United Kingdom are exhibiting. Their exhibits are collected principally in the two gieat palaces of Engineering and I mlu.str,v. Thc-e buildings are the largest of their kind in the world, and are solidly built of steel and riuirivte. In the Palace of Engineering, five giguniie overhead travelling oraite.s are being im.tailed as winking exhibits. There yon will see all the wheels of the Empire going round. Each Dominion and Colony has its c«n Pavilion where it will unfold the

story of its development, and where the visitm may see the whole Empire iepreseiited in exhibits faithfully reproduiing the scenery, the colour and the !i‘c of Britain overseas.

Tnoro is an Amusements Park which itself will he as Tig as any ordinary Exhibition. Here will he all the hues! amusements, the best in the world at li.e cheapest price. Two racing coaster'. a .switch-hack, the biggest and most complete scenic railway that lias ever been put nj> in 1 Ills country, two water i :des and a number of safety air gliders are to he among the attractions. Yuti v ill he able to travel hy the old coach " Dawson City and see what life was like in the Far North in the days of tin: Yukon gidd rush. You will he :>;-le to go down n real coal mine, and Irani .something of the adventurous life of the miner. You will be able to ettjo\ the thrills of living without experiencing any of its dangers. This will ho possible on the “Glytla", a captive monoplane, which is to he in use i"r the iirst time at Wembley.

After sampling tlie various riding dr

vices you ,-au \ Fit a theatre, a darn ing hull twice tlie size of the Albert Hall, o' an A'luniium in which will be shown id! the queerest of ipicer iish known to Neptune. A miniature railway. I ,200 yards long, will enable you to get quickly from one end of the grounds to the other. Forty-seven acres are in he devoted to the Amusements Parle, v. melt is more limn three times the amount of ground covered hv the largest Amusements Park at present in existence in the United Kingdom. Then there L the Stadium- the largest sports ground in the world. Here mere will he from time to time iuterfmperial contests in every form cf scerf ai <1 all the greatest athletes of tlv. Empire will foregather. Here also "ill be- held the great Jamboree of Coy

Scouts, a great I it) |t*t ia 1 Pageant with thousands of performers, torchlight, t toos, concerts hy mussed military I »•: it its and the 3in }toii:i I Choir of ten thousand singers, and -scores of other varied attractions. At night there will he lirowoiks. and the Exhibition will l,e bathed in floods of beautiful colon r-e-J lights. Von can go a score oi times to the Exhibition without exhausting all there is to see, hut you must go at least once.

We have a great Empire. The history of many parts of it is only just beginning. Most of us, however, know very little about it. One of the objects of the Biitish Umpire Exhibition is to give ns a glimpse of what our Elliptic is. We can learn more about the different parts of the Empire hy .spending a. day at the Exhibition than trout reading many hooks or travelling many thousand miles. Our chief object, however, is to increase our Empire trade. Wt want to get our factories hack to running full time and to find employment for thousands who are now out ol work. Here in the Empire are new markets we want to develop. Thousands of buyers are coming home in 192-R Wo want to show them that the Oid Country is still the greatest and best manufacturing country in the world. They, on their side, can show us that there are many things wc can b.t, T from them. The more wc trade with them the more they can afford to trade with us, A third object of the Exhibition, is to show what chances life in ihe Dominions and Colonies can offei to those of its who want to find a fresh home Overseas under the British Flag. There are many open spaces in the Empire trying out lor settlers. The Dominions and Colonies will tell us all about them at the Exhibition. There will he scores of men and women who left- these shores in years gone by who will revisit, the Home Country to tell the story of how they made good, and how wider chances and opiwrtunjtios came to them in their new home.