EMPIRE EXHIBITION
THE NEW ZEALAND GARDEN,
(FRO- OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, 20th December. Considerable progress has been made on the New Zealand pavilion at Wembley, and it is expected that the construction of the shell of the main building will be completed by the contract date—l2th January, 1924. The erection of the f ramewerk pf the cinema is now in ceurse of operation, and a start has been made with the kitchen attached te the restaurant. Mr. Lipnel de Rethschild Tecently effered the lean pf a collecticn pf cabbage trees for the New Zealand garden, and Mr.': Gill, who is superintending the work of laying out the grounds attached to the pavilion, has been to see these trees. He reports that they are tall, fine1 specimens, about 20 feet in height. Mr.-de Rothschild is lending twenty of them, as well as six good specimens of the eucalyptus tree. Included among the New Zealand plants which have now been obtained are 15 tree ferns, 20 ti trees, 50 veronicas, one nikau palm (for the main hall of the pavilion), 60 cabbage palms of various' sizes, 6 pr mpre toi toi plants, 38 flax bushes, 6 eucalyptus trees, and a large number 'of olearias and senecics.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 25, 30 January 1924, Page 8
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204EMPIRE EXHIBITION Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 25, 30 January 1924, Page 8
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