ROYAL GIFTS FOR N.Z.
Art Section Of Centennial
Exhibition.
HUNT FOR OUT SIZE TURTLE.
(Received 11 a.m.) ! LONDON, August 15. The "Daily Telegraph" says that Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary, the Princess Royal, and the Duchesses of Gloucester and of Kent, will provide exhibits for the art section of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition at Wellington on November 8.
The Commonwealth Commerce Department, says a Canberra message, is seeking the biggest turtle in Australia for a tropical display at the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition. It expects to obtain such a turtle from Queensland, where they grow to enormous size.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 192, 16 August 1939, Page 9
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