THE BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 April 1924, Page 4

THE BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION.

THE OVERSEAS SECTION

The amount of space which the Over, seas Governments are occupying is altogether unprecedented. The Canadian Pavilion is an imposing building in the nco-Grec style. One of the Canadian exhibits will cover the Dominion’s immense agricultural industry. Specimens representing practically every producing mine in Canada will give the visitor an idea of her well-nigh inexhaustible mineral wealth, while the Forestry section will show samples of all Canadian woods. All the leading manufactures will he represented on such a scale as to emphasise the vast strides which Canada is making along industrial lines.

The Australian Pavilion is as big as the "hole of Olympia. In a gallery at one end there will be an Australian restaurant, where practically the whole of the foodstuffs used will bo of Australian production. A great cold storage plant will be on view. The New Zealand Pavilion will contain a fine display of natural history exhibits, and of tourist and sporting trophies. In the fisheries section will he shown specimens of the best known New Zealand fishes preserved in blocks of ice. '

The South African Pavilion will ho built in the old Dutch style with characteristic stoop and loggia. In the adjoining grounds will he installed a complete South African train. A complete working model of a diamond washing plant is to he erected. In tile representation of Newfoundland, special prominence will be given to display of the valuable furs and pelts found in the islands, ami an extensive exhibit of forest products will show the importance of the recently developed “newsprint” paper industry. The Pavilion of the Indian Empire will reproduce the artistic. Within its walls will be housed exhibits of the arts and crafts, metal work, carpets, and carving in wood and iron for which India has a world-wide reputation. The ports of India and her great railway arteries "ill be fully illustrated, wliilo tlio Indian Forests Department will be represented. The Burma section, which adjoins the Indian grounds, contains a Pavilion designed on lines of purely Burmese architecture and decorated by some of the finest carving in the Exhibition. At the main entrance will be a bridge house copied from one of the gates of tlio famous Arakan. Pagoda at Mandalay. The Ceylon pavilion, in the Kandyan style, will lie one of the most remarkable features of the Exhibition. The towers flanking it on each side are modelled upon the famous ‘‘Temple of the Tooth” at Kandy. Among the many exhibits of the famous Island, due prominence is given to the wellknown Ceylon teas, and not the least noteworthy part of the display illustrates tlio production of rubber and tlio many articles made from it. The Hong; Kong section reproduces a native'.street in which many Chinese will lie seen at work in their ordinary surroundings. Tlong Kong is the representative at Wembley of an enormous Pacific trade, which is now looking to Great Britain for support. The production of rubber, of "hub Malaya furnishes more than half the world's supply, "iil be demonstrated in detail by models’ in the Malaya Pavilion. In the Scenic section will be a large model of Singapore harbour. Sarawak is being accommodated on the Mala.va.site. The Palestine and Cyprus Pavilion is

designed in the familial' style of the

Eastern .Mediterranean, and its contents will give a complete representation of the life and principal industries of the two territories. The West African section takes the form of a walled cii>\ and is an exact replica of a typical city in the hinterland of West Africa. It covers an ares ’f over three acres, contains Pavilions erected by Nigeria, the Geld Coast and Sierra Leone. Tile West Indian and Atlantic Group will occupy a Pavilion built in the Colonial Georgian style surrounded by a tropical garden. In it will bo a model of the pitch lake near Trinidad. The East African building is a copy of an actual Arab palace, the entrance door of which will lie a replica of one of the beautiful old carved doorways to bo-seen in Zanzibar. These exhibits, taken in their entire ..y. will bring home to the visitor the enormous wealth of the Empire, the immense strides being made overseas in the development of both agriculture and manufactures, the everincreasing facilities and attractions offered to the intending emigrant, and the important part each State plays in making the Empire a rich, powerful and indivisible whole.