The Hawera Star. THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1925. THE NEW WEMBLEY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 23 April 1925, Page 4

The Hawera Star.

THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1925. THE NEW WEMBLEY.

lii-livt-red pvry evening li.v 6 o'clock a. H;i\vrr;i, Mii nain. Norma nhy. OkaiAwo, Klthani, Mangaloki, Kapnnga, Alton. Hurley villi', Palea, Waverley. .Vlokoia. Wiiakama-'a, (Jhangai. Meremere. Road, and Ararata.

Indications are not wanting that the second session, of the British Empire Exhibition will be equally aw .viiccesisrlul aw the first, and quite possibly more so. The preliminary view of the 1925 pavilions afforded to Press representatives in London suggests that some of the Dominion displays will be much more complete by the opening date than was the case last year, whale it is only to be expected that the various commissi one ns will have profited by the mistakes made in 1924. It seems that Canada will again: make the most elaborate showing on behalf of overseas Britain; but alterations and improvements have been made in the arrangement of the New Zealand pavilion, and the balance promises to be nicely kept between the appeal to the tourist and the sportsman on the one hand and the likely new settler on the- other. There is always a. danger that, in introducing our Islands to the world 1 , we may overdo the poi dance and hot springs part of the business. In very many of the booklets which are sent abroad every Christmas .season that fault is present. After all, New Zealand is something more than a glorified picnic ground. Not that our natural beauties and the splendid characteristic-si of our native people a,re unworthy of attention. Ear from, it; but, great aw are the possibilities in tourist traffic, the Dominion has need of something more permanent. One hard-working family, which lands here with a little capital and the wi 11 to succeed, is worth a dozen globetrotters who “do” the country in fh’eo weeks, and then rush off Horne to write books about Rotorua and Mount Cook. While we di splay Ihe charms of our lake and buslh sefenery and the rugged grandeur of our alpine heights, we must never forget that cur greatest asset lies in our smiling valleys and fertile plains. Our operations at Wembley this year are being planned to preserve that balance, for alongside models of geysers and waterfalls will be sballlis for the sale of Dominion products, .and an immigration bureau ready with all i.hformiation desired by those conitemipllaiting a new start. It is mowgenerally admitted that the, fruits of the Empire Exhibition will not be fully gathered a generation hence. A second sie-fiion at Wembley may not extend the scope of that harvest,' but it is bound to increase the yield. The knowledge that New Zealand is not to be behind; in the work of sowing the seed'of Empire for ,a second season is welcome. If we reap a -share of the harvest, good and well; hut, whether or not we .ourselves gather it in, fb" increase from our seeding will return its wealth to the Empire, some thirl vfold, some sixty-fold, and some a hun-dred-fold.