Soviets flock to N.Z. exhibition
New Zealand has taken a high profile with a photographic exhibition now touring the. Soviet Union, according to the New Zealand-U.S.S.R. society. The exhibition opened in Moscow three weeks ago to extensive news- •' paper and television coverage, and had been consistently packed out, said Mr Chris King, an executive member of the society and the principal organiser of the exhibition. The exhibition consists £ of about 80 large prints showing aspects of New Zealand life and the New » Zealand, landscape. £ : The photographs, chosen by Communicate r - New Zealand, a trading -unit of the Tourism and * Publicity Department, inX . elude subjects.: as .varied » as hprse racing and the * Limbs Dance company, and more contenMjtos sub- ’ V jects such or prmKters at
an American warship visit and a Maori Land Rights march. The exhibition had been suggested by Mr King and Mrs Gay Longbottom, the Christchurch branch president of the society, during a trip to the Soviet Union in 1987.
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