AT WEMBLEY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 11 September 1924, Page 7

AT WEMBLEY.

NEW ZEALAND EXHIBIT

Mr. T. Clarkson writes as follows to the Auckland Star :

A number of New Zealanders ah present resident in London have expressed indignation at the misleading statements contained in an article published in your journal on June 21, and have asked me to forward a correction, it is true that your correspondent admits that, as a medical student he may be presumed to be ignorant of his subject, but this implied unfitness did not prevent him from confidently making a number of wild assertions which, & if uncontradicted, are liable to produce a false impression of how matters stand Wembley. The primary object in exhibiting samples of New Zealand secondary industries was to give practical evidence of the condition of the country. Not only has this ob.iect been completely achieved, but additional and unexpected results can be referred to. Hundreds of inquiries concerning different secondary industries have been made and -it seems certain that trade connections will be opened up in lines where formerly there seemed no possibility of tiade being done. Thousands of school children and scores of school teachers from all parts of the United Jvmgdom inspect the school exhibits daily, and thus receive convincing evidence of the educational advantages obtainable m New Zealand. -A newspaper report of the Royal 'visit to the New Zealand Pavilion on May 21 mentions that “the Queen paid particular attention to the woollen goods displayed and the needlework of the school children of New Zealand.’' Numerous letters have come to the Commissioner from school teachers him on the school exhibit. The New Zealand Government qinte properly has not considered it advisable to sanction the same expenditure at Wembley as has Keen authorised by Canada and by Australia. Uur conditions are. quite different to heirs. Hence it is not possible folds to compete successfully with those countries m the erection of Inure impressive panoramas. But what has jeen done, in the opinion of competent judges, lias been sufficient to demonstrate very clearly and very effectively what our country is, what it can produce. and what opportunities it offers tor immigration and trade.