WOMEN AND THERE EXHIBITION

New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 19, 3 November 1939, Page 14

WOMEN AND THERE EXHIBITION

ELL-who of us is wandering Exhibitionwards? It’s a rather marvellous achievement-this expression of our first hundred years as a nation-and worth all the effort and cost of getting there. And this for many reasons besides the obvious ones: of education and amusement. Yow'll walk with your ..head held a trifle higher with pride for a ‘ob well done. But you won't be blind to the lesser successes and the things that might reasonably have been expected to be better. The point is not whether it is good or bad. It is an expression of our country-of ourselves and what we stand for-and we ought to see it. If we're disappointed here and there we'll also be surprised over and over again. One thing we can be sure of-there’s something for everyone. All the industrial display and technical demonstration that any husband could wish for-enough of the latter

to make that "growing boy" prance with delight. Our own aesthetic sense can find pleasure in many things-colour, light and the thousand evidences of taste in presentation. Modern labour-lessening too has reached a really interesting stage .. . " What will they do with leisure "! Our youngest can find Fun, with a capital F, round every corner of the hugest Amusement Park we’ve known ever.’ There’s food in plenty, and rest, when we want it. The only thing we may not do is sleep there-unless we're "under five." If we are, we’ve a Créche, a Playground and a Plunket Room-so, unless you lose the ticket, your baby will be happy enough. Here’s hoping I see you there!

Ann

Slade