CO129-544-13 British Empire Fair- reports- etc. 10-8-1933 - 8-11-1933 — Page 39

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content to sit there for hours, watching the crowds go by.

the Fair tonerally any exhibit which moved caused the orord to

stop, bat machinery not in motion scarcely received a passing

glance. amplee and advertising matter were eagerly collected

by the crowd.

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The press of people varibi at different timss of

the day, but at some pario:s it was as though the flood gates

had opened and one found oneself in the midst of a meething naa8,

and all doors beseiged by nowomers, impeding the exit of those

who wished to leave, It was clear that if the Hotel is used again,

certain doors must be reserve: for entrance and others for exit.

(The writer's view is that it is hardly fair to subject the Hotel

Compeeny's expensively čecorated building, to what amounts to about jenty years' ordinary wear and tear in four days, and that it

would be better seeing that the Fair is mure to over-run the

bonds of the Hotel -- to house it entirely in a temporary building,

except perhaps for one or two special exhibits which camet con-

veniently be show in a matshed, and use the Hotel as the centre

of the Fair, a place of rost må refreshment for the workers, and

the venue of the pening Ceremony. ne mistake nade vas that the

importance of the Opening Ceremony in the affair was not fully

appreciated and adequate space was not reserved in which to hold

it with due dignity or consideration of the public's comfort, Most

of those attending had to stand at a great distance from the

speakers).

Resuming consideration of the problems created by the onset

of the crowd, it is also clear that the temporary building must be

surrounded by a palisade with exit and entrance doors, say if

possible, there must be one-way traffic through the Exhibition.

14th of yangways should be increased fifty per cent, or even one

hundred per cent if one-way traffic is not precticable.

It