THE CENTENNIAL

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22676, 3 April 1939, Page 8

THE CENTENNIAL

INTEREST STIMULATED OVERSEAS

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WELLINGTON, April 2. Interest ’ abroad in New Zealand’s centennial celebrations at the end ox this year was becoming noticeable, stated the Hon. W. E. Parry (Minister for Internal Affairs) on Saturday. The publicity arranged by the Government, through descriptive posters, booklets, other illustrated literature, and letters, was having the effect of bringing inquiries, all showing that overseas people were likely to find the Dominion’s great event and the celebrations and comprehensive exhibition and fair to mark it, sufficiently attractive. “We are now getting along much better with the plans,” Mr Parry said. “There is a great deal of heavy work to be done during the next eight months, and various schemes are now being consolidated. It would" startle the hardest and most enterprising organiser and worker to see the problems and other matters involved in the lay-out for the celebrations. All must be settled. There should not be anything left undone which would mar the smooth working of the plans for the celebrations. . , The Minister added that the historical publications of the centennial would be of absorbing interest, as they would bring to light many features of New Zealand forgotten by the oldest inhabitants and not known by the young people of to-day.