QUEEN AT THE INDUSTRIES FAIR.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19892, 1 April 1930, Page 2

QUEEN AT THE INDUSTRIES FAIR.

EXAMINATION OF NEW ZEALAND PRODUCE. (nunc pus oto cqmbsposmsbtj LONDON, February ji The Queen, with the Duke of Yesfc and Princess Mary, Countess ef Harewood, paid a visit to the British Industries Tair to-day.. As the JSsjqpiie Marketing Board's"" section is just ui side the main, entrance, one of the first stands the Boyal party, came to was the New' Zealand one. On. seeing the j large block of butter which was being , cut up for samples her 'Majesty tei claimed: "Oh, that beautiful tattarl" ; Hex attention was called to the bee figure displaying advertising ends, and the' party watched that 'for~ agminate or two, reading of the superb mexita of New Zealand honey as each eard was turned up. The frozen carcases- of £amb —they, are really wax rfijjures—recalled to the' Queen an incident of many years ago. "They take me back to a visit; X paid . to a' freezing . chamber in Dunedin," she said. "L remember how cold it was inside." - ■ - Her Majesty'took, an interest in the display of eut joints in l the" refrigerated chamber. The publicity officer explained that the .exhibit was meant to appeal to the housewife. ~ The opossum skins, the rabbit skins, and the fine display of New Zealand wool fleeces also attracted the Qaeerfs attention, and she handled some of the fine, specimens of kauri.gum. National Mark Scheme. At the stand of the Ministry for Agriculture for Great the Queen spent a long time flour, eggs and other market produce sold under the national mark —Sup^ "This is a real service that the Government are performing for'- the benefit of the public, 0 she told one of the officials. "I do think it ia of practical value to .housewives to hare* a guarantee that they are getting home-produced . goods. It .is- a - real help to agriculture in these difficult days." When the Queen w%Brfimii. g to some postcard records ef nursery rhymes, she aWd that "Sins; a Song of Sixpeaco" should be played. She and Princess Mary smiled broadly at the lines: The King was in the counting hoaae • counting. out his money;Tlje Queen was in the parlour m«m bread and honey. ' \ " *" f \ Afterwards the Queen examined some of the latest picture books far children which have little graiaophoae records of nursery rhymes, with thess. She bought a Goose Bosh* with >tbe. records of "Ba-Ba Black x Sheep," and asked that another of the little records should be played. :' v <i The Queen .wore a long coat of the new and fashionable "Bishop's purple. l * with a brown fur collar and % twreSs toque bordered with fiat the brim. A novel not* in r her dress was a bow with long streamer ends reaching nearly the fewn of her coat from the back the collar, made of the same rt*ssitisia- the coat. : —.*■ i