GREAT INDUSTRY FAIR

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 564, 17 January 1929, Page 9

GREAT INDUSTRY FAIR

WHITE CITY DISPLAY DOMINION EXHIBITS British Official Wireless RUGBY, Tuesday. The prospects for the British Industries Fair, which will be held from February 18 to March 1, are extremely satisfactory. At White City, London, almost every branch of British industry will be represented. The machinery section is to be shown concurrently at Birmingham. The fair at White City will be the largest of its kind ever held in this country. The original estimate of the accommodation required was 260,000 square feet. At last year’s fai.r a space of 25,000 square feet was let to exhibitors. The total space booked this year is more than 300,000 square feet. The demand for space at Birmingham has been so great that all available in the exhibition buildings, 400,720 square feet, was soon let. The authorities are rapidly adding a section for such items as roadmaking- apparatus, tractors, agricultural buildings and the like. The number of overseas firms who have informed the Overseas Trade Department that they will be represented at the fair is more than six times as many as at the corresponding date last year, when only 110 firms had accepted the invitation, although the actual number who exhibited was 1,958. At present close on 700 acceptances have been received so that the overseas firms at th fair should be considerably in excess of last year’s number.