SWEDEN SCREENED

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 150, 20 March 1936, Page 6

SWEDEN SCREENED

Chamber of Commerce Sees Picture To illustrate an address on Swedish trade and its relations to New Zealand, an excellent selection of pictures was shown by Mr. G. M. Lindergren, secretary of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce for Australia, New Zealand and the South Sea Islands, to members of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce yesterday. The principal feature was the approach to Gottenburg, the second city of Sweden aud its principal exporting port. The pictures took the spectators through the pretty Gota Canal, which takes passengers iu small boats through a very narrow passage, with locks and lakes on the route, to Stockholm. Pictures were shown of Stockholm, its beautiful buildings and places of interest. Including tbe famous Town Hall. The Blue Hall, in the Town Hall, was showu.

Then parts of the countryside were screened, including Farmland, made famous by the Swedish authoress, Selma Lagerlof, aud Dalarma, which is called the heart of Sweden. I’ictures'of very old homesteads, made of heavy legs, aud of the people, iu old national costumes, were shown. The industrial side of Sweden's life was not neglected, Domnarvet, where are the largest Iron and steel works in the country, being described ou the screen. Members of tbe chamber were taken thence down the long broad river to the coast of tbe Baltic, where sawmills arc situated and where the logs are sorted aud hauled up to tbe mills. Finally Lapland was shown, with its people, its reindeer herds, its tremendous waterfalls, and the calm, silent lakes of the north. Pictures of the Midnight Sun concluded a very interesting film.