The Glasgow Empire Exhibition, which opens in May, will be the greatest held anywhere in the world since the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, in 1924. Not only will the art, culture and products of the Empire be shown, but also the way in which its people live. When completed, the exhibition will have cost directly and indirectly more than £lO.000,000. It is anticipated that the minimum attendance figures will be between 15 and 20 millions; there will be over seventy palaces and pavilions. A special railway station is being built, and there will be parking accommodation for 10.000 cars. The gas, electricity, drains and water services installed in the park are sufficient to supply a city of half a million inhabitants. Thirteen miles of underground cables and 240 miles of wiring will distribute electricity from ten substations to the 1,000,000 candle-power illuminations.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 May 1938, Page 3
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143Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 May 1938, Page 3
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