A SCOTTISH WEMBLEY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 177, 28 June 1937, Page 6

A SCOTTISH WEMBLEY.

From May to October of next year an exhibition on a very large scale will be held in Glasgow, and it is hoped to eclipse the triumph of VVemb.ley, not only in the matter of visitors, but also in the financial results. The possibility of this happening is not by any means remote. The exhibition at Glasgow in 1911 attracted nine million visitors, whilst Wembley totalled no more than thirteen million. With the experience of the past—and Scottish ability to organise and make these exhibitions pay—large numbers of visitors not only fiom the Empire but from foreign countries must be attracted to Glasgow next year. Governments and big business, it is reported, are giving the enterprise their blessing in very practical form. The guarantee fund already exceeds three-quarters of a million pounds, and the promoters are quite sanguine that it will not be necessary io draw upon this fund. The Scottish people have played a distinguished part in building the Empire, and many who have settled overseas in recent years, and the descendants of the earliest pioneers who ventured forth with high hopes and courage when new settlements were being formed, will hear the call of Scotland next year, repaying in some measure, as it has been said, the debt of gratitude owed to her. Last year Johannesburg called many thousands to South Africa; this year Paris is attracting huge crowds to its exhibition where everything has been done on a lavish scale. In 1940 it will be New Zealand's turn, when the Centenary Exhibition will be held in the Capital City. Plans are being completed for an enterprise which it is confidently expected will bring thousands of overseas visitors in response to a notable occasion in the Dominion’s history.