SHOWING OUR GOODS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 24, 29 January 1924, Page 9

SHOWING OUR GOODS

THE DOMINION'S OPPORTUNITY

MR. MASSEY URGES SUPPORT FOR EMPIRE EXHIBITION.

The prediction that Dominion visitors to the Empire Exhibition would be treated well in England was ventured by ' the Prime Minister when speaking at the civic welcome tendered him in the Concert Chamber yesterday afternoon. "I hope that New Zealand will be represented there," remarked Mr. Massey in speaking:of the Exhibition. "I have not had time toslook into-it'; but I know that a very godij committee has been set up to look after our interests. It is a great opportunity, an opportunity that should not ba lost, it is an opportunity for the British industrialists, the people concerned in those great workshops that I am glad to say still I exist'in England. (Applause.) I would like to be able to say that Britain is the industrial centre of the world, but that cannot be under existing conditions, which will have to change, if she is to become «o. The Exhibition would show what the other nation* of the Empire could produce, and New Zealand should show its customers what it could do in the matter of what it had to export. Our timbers and our fish must not be forgotten, for of these the people at Home had heard a very great deal. He hoped there would also be a good display of articles made in the Dominion's workshops, because there was no reason why the New Zealand workman, who was a "chip of the old block," should not be as good as the British workman-iim-self, who had hafjthe reputation of being the very best workman in the world. "I have had an opportunity of seeing the work they have done in the industrial centres, and they tell me' I am the best advertising agent New Zealand ever possessed, observed Mr. Massey, amidst laughter and applause. "I think that has been only a bit of flattery at the time my health has been proposed—(laughter)—but it is the duty of every public man who goes from New Zealand to the Old Country to tell what New Zealand is like. Though hej need not boast, he can give an accurate idea, and that ifl quite sufficient. Sheffield and Wolverhampton are both doing a lot of work for New Zealand. This information will come perhaps in .a different form from now, but it will be done."