DISPLAYS AT GLASGOW

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 April 1938, Page 7

DISPLAYS AT GLASGOW

THE EMPIRE EXHIBITION GOOD PROGRESS BEING MADE WITH PAVILIONS GREAT TOWER COMPLETED (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 19. All the main pavilions of the Empire Exhibition at Glasgow are now practically finished and workmen are engaged night and day to ensure that when the King and Queen visit Bellahouston Park for the opening ceremony on May 3 they will see the completed exhibition. Exhibits are already being arranged in some of the main pavilions, and notably so in palaces of engineering and the two pavilions of industry. Good progress is being made in Dominion pavilions, where the mural decorations will be illustrative of the countries whose exhibits are shown. The Tower of Empire, which is the commanding feature of the exhibition grounds, has been completed and lifts installed and the amusement park will be ready for the earliest visitors. RAILWAY PLANS EXPRESS AND OTHER SERVICES (British Official Wireless.) (Recd This Day, 10.15 a.m.) RUGBY, April 20. In connection with the Empire Exhibition at Glasgow, the railways companies have planned special arrangements for dealing with visitors. In addition to augmented express services from London, providing twenty-two in each twenty-four hours, over 2500 special trains will be run for excursionists and organised parties estimated to aggregate over a million passengers.