EMPIRE EXHIBITION.
OPENED BY THEIR MAJESTIES. ENTERPRISE AND ENTHUSIASM PRAISED. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.35 a.m.) LONDON, May 3,. Guns boomed and aeroplanes roared overhead as Their Majesties opened the Empire Exhibition in the presence of 100,000 people. Their Majesties spent a long time at the New, Zealand pavilion, where they were received by Mr. Jordan and a, group of, officials. The Queen v/as delighted with a gift of a pair of sheepskin gloves. She chatted with two dairymaids slicing New Zealand butter and remarked how appetising it Icoked. The Queen also enquired about the price and quality of New Zealand bacon. The King, in opening the Exhibition, praised the enterprise, enthusiasm and hard work which made a town of over one hundred palaces and pavilions with-* in a little over ten months. A hopeless break in traffic and other arrangements marked the opening of the exhibition. Many Dominion officials suffered and' some were forced to raid stalls. to obtain lunch.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 May 1938, Page 5
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