The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times. SATURDAY, JUNE 28th, 1924. THE GREAT EXHIBITION.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 June 1924, Page 2

The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times. SATURDAY, JUNE 28th, 1924. THE GREAT EXHIBITION.

Tim week’s mail matter lias included many English news) apei.s (pictorial and otherwise) supplying full and impressive accounts of the opening of the great Exhibition at Wembley. It was altogether a lemarkahle spectacle. In a brief hut comprehensive sum-

mnry of the varied display at tlio woncleliul Kxhibitoin, the London “Times" , pioceeclx to remark: As the Greatest uiniuifactiiriig country ill the world, the industrial activities of the I'nitcd Kingdom occupy the two largest buildings ever erected for exhihition pur--1 uses. In the Palace of Engineering the workshops and of many hundred eminent linns cover thirteen acres of land. Five lines of railway, linking up with the main I3<itish systems were sjeeially laid to bring these massive exhibits direct to their sites. So completely repiPsentfltivo and practical is the disp.lay that huge units which are in themselves exhibits were used for handling and setting in position the others. Part of the electrical section consists of power units from forty famous works; they are self-contained exhibits assembled as a gigantic whole, forming the world's finest power station, which lights the entire Exhihition and drives its thousands of machines. Tn the sister Palace ot Industry a:o the cotton mills of In in-ash i to. brought to Wembley. Bradford simihuly reveals the secrets of her wool manufactures. Modern factories producing food. hoveiages and tobacco monopolise an acre; the magnificent demonstrations of British chemical manufacture and research slightly less. The wonders and uses of coal-gas for heating and lighting, and the applications of its by-products for the making of dyes, dings, motor spirit etc., for domestic and industrial use are shown in one great co-ope-rative exhibit. Side by side with tlio industries of Britain are those of Ulster; almost every British article sold in any British shop is shown in the making. In the Overseas Sections every phase of life in all the Dominions. Colonies and Dependencies is reproduced in a natural setting. Canada. Australia. N’ew Zealand. South Africa and Newfoundland follow their dairy pursuits of agriculture, mining, sheep-raising, ostrich-farming, forestry, fishery, fur and manufacture. India brings her arts and crafts: Burma her rice and oil fields, peacocks and elephants: Ceylon her tea. and Malay 1 her rubber plantations; Hong Kong a 1 street of Chinese shops. Incredibly vast is the stage upon which all the 1 nations under the British flag play 1 their proud parts in this living drama 1 of Empire, Wwt Africa Jim -t trailed i

city of more than throe acres, in which will be found the Pavilions of Nigeria —which lias a population of 20,C00,000 —tho Clohl Coast, and Sierra I.oone. Fiji, the smallest of Wemhlev territories occupies 11,000 square feet! Tho Best Indies group includes Jamaica, Trinidad, and Tobago, Barbados, the Windward and Leeward Kies, Bahamas and the Falkland Islands. Under the same roof British Guiana, itlic only British possession in the South Ante lien u continent, will display its immense resources which await development; Fast Africa. including Kenya. Uganda, Zanzibar. Nyassalnnd. the Sudan, Seychelles, Mauritius and the Mandated territory of Tanganyika: Palestine. Cyprus. Malta, and Bermuda, all are represented —no unit of the Empire is missing. At Wembley there i-. plenty to entertain and amuse as well as to interest and instruct. In the stately British Government Pavilion, historic naval engagements are re-enacted on a great water stage; in tho Palace of Arts is a splendid collection of Imperial paintings and sculpture. At the Imperial Stadium notable sporting events will take place throughout the period' of the Exhibition. -The Empire’s finest hands will play in numerous handstands. tho largest having seating accommodation for lO.COD people. Visitors may desc-oned a full-sized colliery and witness the whole process of winning ami transporting the coal. In the Amusements Park of ."0 acres—the finest in the woild—every kind of modern thrill and adventure is pro-vided--"coasters” which race for a mile, jazzing motor ears, a giant switchback, and tho biggest scenic railway ever built. The tomb of Tul-nnkh-Alilt'll is reproduced with aeeuincy of detail; there is a dancing palace twice the size of the Albert Hall, and there are 1,0119 side shows in addition. Tin* British Empire Exhibit ion is easily accessible from all parts; the site was dhoson on that, account. Various kinds of transport convey visitors over its fifteen miles of roads—the “XovoiStop” Railway, tho “Road-Rail.” and a licet of electric ears, etc. Numerous cafes and roslaurants give, in all. seating accommodation for 1)0,000 persons at one time.