EMPIRE EXHIBITION

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 77, 27 September 1924, Page 11

EMPIRE EXHIBITION

NEW ZEALAND'S DISPLAY

The Prime Minister 'mentioned in the House of Representatives on Thursday that he had received the following cablegram from Colonel the Hon. G. J. Smith, M.L.C., through the High Commissioner, with reference to the British Empire Exhibition :—

"I am satisfied New Zealand has a capital advertisement in its exhibition at Wembley. The wool, meat, putter, and cheese exhibits are exceptionally good, so also are displays timber, flax, and rugs. The sports and tourist attractions are well displayed and evoke eagar inquiries. Some of manufactured exhibits are very disappointing, but object of participation is to- emphasise our primary products and place them before British public, and this has been achieved. British criticism is very satisfactory. "Roberts and staff deserve praise for achievement and fulfilment of their duties."

Mr. Massey said he thought this information was very satisfactory after what they had read in some newspapers about the exhibition.

The Leader of the Opposition (Mr. T. M. Wilford) asked whether it was a fact that Chinese and Japanese had stalls for selling articles at the Exhibition.

The Minister of Customs (the Hon. W. Downie Stewart) mentioned that there was a Chinese exhibit from Hong Kong. Mr. Massey said that Hong Kong was a British Possession, and that would account for Chinese being at the Exhibi-' tion.

Mr. Wifford said that he had been, told that the Germans were exhibiting at the Exhibition.

Mr. Massey: "I don't know how the Germans come to be there." He said that so far as the New Zealand exhibit was concerned the trouble'was that we were not ready when the Exhibition opened, and that liad tremendously disappointed people who had gone from New Zealand to see the Exhibition. The New Zealand display of manufactured articles had been disappointing in comparison with those from other countries, but, after all, New Zealand had put up a very creditable display, and he believed it would do a very great deal of good.

Replying to Mr. Wilford, he said that he would be very disappointed if it were true that there had been Chinese, Japanese, or German goods at the Exhibition.