“IT’S ALL TRUE”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 June 1939, Page 6

“IT’S ALL TRUE”

THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION.

“It’s all true,” one can say as accurately about the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition as Rupert Brooke wrote of the South Sea Islands, when he found that the reality came up to colourful descriptions of the native life and scenery, remarks “New Zealand Centennial News.” A year ago it was thought that the Exhibition, despite the bigness of the planning, from various viewpoints, would not be enough to draw visitors from distant countries, but time has properly changed this notion. The progress of the farranging preparations has reached a point which thoroughly justifies a belief that visitors from all parts of the world will have some very pleasant surprises. . The presentation of New Zealand in miniature—its world-famed scenery, its industrial, educational, social, and governmental activities —will be well worth a long journey to sec. To. take just one detail—a reproduction of the marvellous Glow-worm Cave of Waitomo—the copying of the original is being done so faithfully that a paper m the Auckland District argued seriously that the viewing of such an impressive imitation would satisfy spectators, and that some who might have intended to go to Waitomo would not make the trip, and thus some tourist business for that locality would be lost.