Generally acknowledged to be the highlight of the display in the Australian Pavilion at 'he Centennial Exhibition is the replica of an Australian beach scene. By moans of a clever illusion the breakers appear to roll in to the miniature beach, and on every seventh wave a surf boat, manned by a tiny crew, rises in a cloud of spray and then sinks again into the trough of the wave. The model figures on the beach of a bathing parly and a life-saving leant are the most realistic example of human modelling in lhe whole exhibition,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 January 1940, Page 6
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