London, Sept. 18.
The opening ceremony of the Empire Exhibition at Johannesburg was broadcast to listeners in England by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
The High Commissioner for South Africa in London, Mr. C, T. te Water, Jand the Dominions Secretary, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, were among those who listened to the opening speeches.
Lord Clarendon, Governor-General the Union, read a message of good wishes from the King to 15,000 people who attended the ceremony, These Included old pioneers who had not visited the Rand for 20 years, Gen. J. MI B. Hertzog, the South African Frime Minister, welcomed the visitors, and the recorded speeches of Mr. Stosley Baldwin and the Prime Ministers of other Dominions were heard.
Some 2.000.000 visitors are expected before the exhibition closes its doors, and arrangements have been made for visits by large "numbers of schoo! children from all over the Union, The United Kingdom Government pavilion ie dedicated to the people of the Union as a tribute of the esteem of the people of the United Kingdom—Wirelese Through Reuter,
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