EXHIBITION BUILDINGS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1940, Page 4

EXHIBITION BUILDINGS

GOVERNMENT TO TAKE OVER. MINISTERIAL STATEMENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The intention of the Government to take over the Centennial Exhibition buildings when the Exhibition closes today was announced yesterday by the Minister of Industries and Commerce and president of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition Company, Mr Sullivan. He said the main reason for this action was that the buildings could be utilized to advantage in carrying out the expansion involved in New Zealand’s part of the Empire air training scheme. ' “The formula fixing the basis on which these assets will be transferred by the Exhibition Company to the Government has been tentatively agreed on by a committee representing the directors and by a committee appointed by me, but till the accounts of the Exhibition are completed and the position in regard to various liabilities clarified, it would not be practicable to finalise the exact basis of transfer,” said Mr Sullivan. “In the meantime, therefore, it is not possible to give more definite information arising out of the Government’s-decision.” AUSTRALIAN PAVILION. PRESENTED TO N.Z. GOVERNMENT It is announced in a Press Association cable message from Canberra that the Commonwealth Government has presented the Australian pavilion at the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition to the Dominion Government for military or similar purposes, as a gesture of goodwill and co-operation in the Empire war-effort. The building cost about £20,000.