NEW ZEALAND'S PART

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 49, 27 August 1923, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND'S PART

1 IN THE EMPIRE EifiTBiTION.

;■ Businesg in connection with; tH'o' approaching Empire Ekhibifibn was transacted, at a meeting of the Dominion Advisory Council;oil' Friday. Mr W S Bennett presided. ... . „ t^J^^i^oiince'diKat.the 5 piir'chaW of the Knutzen collection of kauri guiii Jiiaij ■been secured for, £100.. ..This .i;' raia' to be pne^ of the .best ■ priyat'ely-pwnsdi'/.col-l?<*i?ns inLthe'poniinibn. It lias fieen' stated from time to time tha,fc (fie-BSip-' :p]iig . accom^ioaatToiV jfrorn the' Domkioh to Eohdbri fr.om December* t(j Slar^h" had. been conipltilely. filled,. A; Mifenient from the,shipping' prov-' ed',.this, to be', entirely erVpnedugj, a^tf there are' still a nuniber df ffigst anil 06----ond-class. (i .passages available 0 for 1 the months" mentioned.: „ . : , Infor'matian . fa's . .re.celvid , tiia^V.tHfe' Aust*alasian'.lftter^tWnal Cr'tueih^j' .Cppipiny'. v/eit p'rpyfding a ivorld'g^ya'ciiting cruise., for, 1924, the propdsed" ituigr'aVy being:—New Zealand, last pdr'f o{ call Auckland; thence.,to 'Fiji and ,the Islands, Hbholulri; thence' to tne East, including Bombay ; tKence via the J^editerfaiieah' to London. Glsfsgow,' ahtf N"ew York. „ , , . f S) , ,Mr.;H. G. Drew^ taxidermist,.6f Wanganui, who is arranging the bird' ex^ hibit for, the exhibftiohV reported that it was practically'complete. , The Marine Department, however, were aifengihg with Captain < Bolfons to furnish a fur ; ther supply of bl'ue..penguing to place with. the.sea-bird exhibit. . In' all pro bability NewJ Zealand would be; Vtii 6nly pottipn ofV,thf Empire', io' include penguins; in its' .Bird display, . . Mr. ; Viviaft; Donald,'of Mai^rton,' h&plajied in .the hands' pf.^the.Gflverlnment heads-of; two, o£ the. fir«t Wapiti «hbt iff" Neyir Zealand. These .heads are extTemely fine sp'eciniW .of,, the ..species 1, .and' the larger,head.is valued and ha'sl been insured for £500.