N.Z. EXHIBIT AT FOOD FAIR

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28767, 12 December 1958, Page 14

N.Z. EXHIBIT AT FOOD FAIR

Businessman Stands By Statement (New Zealand Press Aaaoetattoaj PALMERSTON NTH. Dec. 11. Mr P. K. Fowler, a Pahnerston North businessman, stands firm on bis statement that New Zealand’s exhibit at the British Food Fair at Earl's Court, London, was “cheap end very shoddy.” He said this tonight when asked to comment on a reported statement from Dunedin that his description of the exhibit was all “boloney." Mr Fowler said the exhibit in no way adequately depicted New Zealand’s thriving primary production, nor the quality of the article which was being sold to the British housewife. New Zealand’s display was strikingly limited in comparison with the stands from competing countries on the Continent and the Argentine, he said. He did not, for instance, see a sign of New Zealand chilled beef, whereas the Argentine displayed an entire row of chilled hindquarters.

The New Zealand lamb was a papier mache model of a carcase —"Well done, admittedly, but lacking in just what one could reasonably have expected.”

He firmly believed that if more money was spent on similar exhibitions in the future, the New Zealand exhibit could become a show-piece, said Mr Fowler. The opportunity was there for the Dominion to advertise not only its produce, but also its tourist attractions.

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