A FESTIVAL OF THE EMPIRE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 242, 18 November 1909, Page 2

A FESTIVAL OF THE EMPIRE

IN LONDON .NEXT VKAIt. ALL ARRANGEMENTS OJMI'LETED. Ly Cable.—Press Association.—CupynglH Received Notvuiber 17, 11.1W I'llLondon, .Novciiilk*!' itArrangements are completed for bolding a festival of the Empire at the Crystal l'alaee next summer. Lord Plymouth is chairman of Hie council, winch included Lords Avebury, auuthcona, Durnham, and Kotliscliild. v sum of £50,000 'hag been guaruniicd towurds the scheme. Lords ilinto (India), Grey (Canada), .'lvnket (New Zealand), and Selliorne ('■ouili Africa), and Sir Ralph Williams (Newfoundlanil) are members of the organisation committee, for the coloniea. It is hoped two hundred civilians from the colonies will participate in the cycle of pageants of London history, wherein there will l>c 130,000 other performers. I The grounds are to be devoted to speci taclcs' of colonial scenery, colonial in- ® dus tries, harvesting, shearing, limber 1 getting and mining; also colonial cines matographs and other pictorial indus- " tries of the different colonies. The festival extends over May, June and July. The promoters hope to secure educational results and help to the consolidation of the Empire. The profltd will 'go to the King's Hospital Fund. , Newspapers received the proposal favor- , able, but some point out that It will 9 be a counter Attraction to the AogioJapanese exhibition.