EMPIRE EXHIBITION.
0 THE NEW ZEALAND GARDEN. ■ (FEOII OUE OWN • COHItESrOKDEXT.) LONDON, December 20. Considerable progress has been made on.the New Zealand pavilion at Wembley, and it is expected that the construction of the shell of the main building will be completed by the contract date—January 12th, 1V24. The erection of the framework of the cinema is now in course of operation, and a start has been mad© with the kitchen - attached to the restaurant.
Mr Lionel do Rothschild recently ottered the loan of a collection of cabbage trees for the New Zealand garden, and Mr Gill, who is superintending the work of laying out the grounds attached to the Pavilion, has been to see these trees. He reports that they are tall', fine specimens about 20ft in height. Mr de Rothschild is lending twenty of them, as well as six good specimens of the eucalyptus tree. Included among the New Zealand plants which have now been obtained arc 15 tree ferns, 20 ti-trees? 50 veronicas, one nikau palm (for the main hall of the pavilion), CO cabbage palms of various sizes, <3 or more toi-toi plants. 38 flax bushes. G eucalyptus trees and a large number of olear'ias and senecios.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 17985, 31 January 1924, Page 3
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