AUSTRALIAN PAVILION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 June 1939, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN PAVILION

AT CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. AN IMPOSING BUILDING. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. CANBERRA. June 28. The Australian exhibit in the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition will cost £40,000 to £50.000 and will be the most ambitious ever attempted by the Commonwealth. The building will be 250 feet long by 50 feet wide, with four imposing columns 60 feet high. It will be brilliantly floodlit at night. Special attention is being devoted to the, expansion of secondary industries and features of outdoor life, including Australian flora and fauna, surf beaches and pastimes.

The Australian pavilion al tho Centennial Exhibition is already far advanced. the entire framework of the building having been erected in the past few weeks. Full details of the architecture of the building were given by the architect. Mr Stephenson. Melbourne, when he visited Wellington some three weeks ago. The two-story main tower will be faced with glass, and will be one of the most impressive buildings of the exhibition. The design of the building had to be carefully adjusted, in view of its proximity to the main gates at Kingsford Smith Street, to allow of the tower conforming with the height restrictions imposed for tho safety of aircraft on the eastern buildings of the exhibition, adjo ini n g the aerodrome at Rongotai.