EMPIRE EXHIBITION

Gisborne Times, Volume LX, Issue 9797, 6 May 1924, Page 6

EMPIRE EXHIBITION

INFORMAL SUPRISE VISIT BY ROYALTY

KING ON AUTOMATIC WEIGHT MACHINE

United Prees Association- -Copyright. LONDON May 4. The King and Queen, accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of York and Prince Axel of Denmark, paid an informal surprise visit to the Empire Exhibition. They devoted themselves to the Palaces of Engineering, Industry and Fine Arts. Here and there the King chatted with the exhibitors and girls at the various stalls. ms Majesty was especially interested in the Great Western, which was “like the one I drove at Swindon,” as he said to the Queen. The latter examined in detail tbe, process of baking cakes in an electrie oven, and discussed the respective advantages of cooking by electricity, gas, or icbal. . The King, to the amusement of the party, weighed himself on an automatic machine, which registered 150 pounds, —A .and N.Z.O.A.

NEW ZEALAND’S COURT. Hard by Australia, at one end of the central lake, is New Zealand, a big building in the Renaissance style, decorated with relief frescoes in fibrous plaster, depicting the life and labor of the island Dominion—sheepshearing, dairying, scrub clearing, harvesting, and the rest. ‘ln the gardens attached to the. New Zealand pavilion is a Maori house decorated with native carvings . and other work, and a Samoan “fale.” A feature of New Zealand’s display is that there are no individual exhibitors, and that the exhibits represent the ’whole Dominion, so that the designers were not hampered by liavj ii ct to conform to the ideas of individual firms desirous of making the most of their own space. New Zealand timbers are used throughout, the main hall being decorated with Maori carvings on the pillars and lintels. A beautiful collection of deer heads includes some beasts which fell to the gun of Viscount Jellicoe, the Governor-General. Ihe southern court, is chiefly devoted to New Zealand wool; the north court is used for displays connected with the frozen meat industry. _ As m the Australian court, there is a- New Zealand restaurant and a cinema theatre where moving pictures of New Zealand life and industry will be shown.