THE DUKE AT HOME

Evening Star, Issue 19613, 20 July 1927, Page 5

THE DUKE AT HOME

A VISIT TO OLYMPIA POWER OF ADVERTISING Press Association —By Telegraph—-Copyright. LONDON, July 19. (Received July 20, at 10 a.in.) “ Advertising seems to have become a great power in the laud. Ido not see much difference between it and education. It is really a popular form of education,” said tbo Duke of Yolk aftei a tour of the Advertising Exhibition at Olympia. He was particularly interested in the Marketing Board’s exhibit, admiring the pictures of fishing scenes in New Zealand, which reminded him of the splendid time he had spent in fishing there.—A. and N.Z. and ‘Sun’ Cable. MEMENTOES OF TOUR. ■’llßE NEW ROSES, LONDON. July 19. (Received July 20, at 10 a.m.) Mementoes of the Duke of York’s tinir—l iuee new seedling roses—were shown at, the Royal Horticultural Socity’s Slum . They are named Renown, Canberra, and Baby Betty, because the mime “ Princess Elizabeth ” has been already used for a new rose. The Renown is a beautiful cerise bloom shaded to cardinal. Canberra is a palo vermilion with reverse petals of gold. Baby Betty is a deep salmon shaded to yellow.—A. and N.Z. and ‘ Sun ’ Cable.

AIR AMERY’S EXPLANATION. (British Official News.) Press Association—By Wireless—Copyright. RUGBY, July 19. (Received July 20, at noon.) The Duke of York spent nearly an hour to-dny at the big Advertising Exhibition at Olympia. Air L. S. Amery (Secretary of State for the Dominions) afterwards welcomed the visitors. He said the Empire Alarketing Board, in advertising Empire products, was not advertising the articles so much as an Empire idea. Not only were British goods purchased, but the fact of their purchase contributed indirectly to greater development, to an increase in British employment, and to the bringing about of greater unity and prosperity within the Empire.