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NEW ZEALAND PAVILION. SERVING ITS PURPOSE. ay CABIiE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COP If RIGHT LONDON, Aug. 21. It is estimated that- one-third of the Hembley Exhibition’s ten million visitors entered the New Zealand pavilion, an average of 50,000 daily. Thousands of cases of apples, twentvthree thousand samples of honey, and twenty-live thousand packets of butter have been sold, reaching homes all over Britain. A grocer in a provincial town states that he lias doubled his sales of butter owing to the publicity at Wembley. There have been numerous migration inquirers, including many middle-class professional people desiring a change of occupation, with capital ranging from £‘2oo to several thousands. Many inquiries for flax, pelts, rabbit-skins, woollen rugs, timbers, meat, butter and milk products were received.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 23 August 1924, Page 5
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124AT WEMBLEY. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 23 August 1924, Page 5
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