SYDNEY EXHIBITION.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 January 1926, Page 1

SYDNEY EXHIBITION.

TO SYNCHRONISE WITH BRIDGE OPENING.

SYDNEY, Jam- 7

Tli© dream of Mr G-. M. Dash, whoso organising work for the Commonwealth Government, especially in connexion with its loans, is well known, is a great International Exhibition in Sydney, (o synchronise with, and mark the opening of Sydney Harbour Bridge. Mr Dash’s idea is associated with an Exhibition to demonstrate the possibilities of Australia’s primary and secondary industries, and to show the world her true national and social standing, an international carnival on big and wellorganised lines. Amidst it all, lie pictures the great bridge itself, brilliantly illuminated at night. He feels that it is an opportunity which should tot bo missed, to place more largely on the map the second white city of the Empire. and to attract to Australia tourists from all parts of the world. MiDash’s scheme is based apparently on the opening of the bridge approximately in 1020. 11 is project had no sooner seen flic light, of day than the public were informed that a scheme for such an Exhibition was already in band, and had boon inspired by Mr Geo. A. Taylor, who is prominently associated in Sydney with town-planning and wireless. ' lfis project is fixed for 1930, it being claimed that five bridge will not be completed until of that year, at which time the City underground railway will also, it is hoped, l>e operating. With two such energetic spirits in the hold as Mi Dash" and Mr Taylor, it appears, fairly certain that the idea of an Exhibition will bo translated into fact, if the forces behind both parties can he concentrated One site for the Exhibition nas already been submitted to flic State Government, under th original scheme proposed by Mr Taylor. One of the busiest little men about town, who rests onlv when he sleeps, one would imagine from his multifarious activities,"Mr Tavlor, it appears, has forestalled Mr Dash, for he has gone so far as to have a site committee appointed. including Dr Bradford, the harbour 'bridge and city railway engineer. and to have forwarded to the O d Countrv special details of his Exhi ntion. Tf. of course, Mr Dash persists in his 1929 project, and the rival parties show anv inclination (or war. theie may be no Exhibition at all. Ilie open.ing of the bridge, however, is stm a long way off.