INDUSTRIES FAIR

Hokitika Guardian, 19 February 1930, Page 2

INDUSTRIES FAIR

ANNUAL EXHIBITION

THE LARGEST DISPLAY YET SEEN

(British Official Wireless)

RUGBY, Feb. 15

.Thousands of prospective customers are reaching England this week-end for tne B.itish Industries Fair, two sections of which, one at Olympia, Loudon, and the other at Castle Bromwich', Birmingham, aie to open on Monday. . The fair is the greatest trade exhibition that the world has ever seen, and personal invitations have been sent to 203,000 trade buyers in sixty countries. The fair has grown steadily in size since its inception, and. this year is larger and more comprehensive than ever before. For tlie first time the London exhibition is held at Olympia, which has been specially equipped, and which offers greater comfort and accommodation than did the AY bite Cit> that has been used in previous years.

place of honour in the main hall is given to the huge exhibit of the Empire Marketing Board which displays not only the products of the Home country, but of the dominions, India and the colonies. Olympia is otherwise devoted to “light industries,” such as clothing, and a display which offers goods to suit everybody from the bathing belle to the Arctic exploier, pottery and glass, photographic equipment, sports goods, and scores ot other products. At Birmingham, where the “heavy section” of the Fair is held, exhibitions have increased until there are eight miles of shop windows and four miles of gangways, with stands on either side, all arranged in sections to facilitate inspection of the goods in which visitors yhave special interest. The hardware and brass foundry sections have, in particular, developed this year. The whole fair illustrates the immense scone of British industry, as well as the vigorous commercial enterprise now being displayed by it.