EMPIRE EXHIBITION.
Received August 11, 9.5 a.m. LONDON, August 9. • The House of Commons has adopted a resolution authorising the (payment of £IOO,OOO as the Government’s share of the guarantee fund ’in connection with the forthcoming British Empire exhibition. ' Mr F G. Kell away, in moving the resolution, said that there wnsj no better way of celebrating the greati part played by the Empire in the war than by holding in London this exhibition of tjhe Empire’s manifold resources and the activities of its peoples. The guarantee was conditional on a guarantee of £500,000 being foithcoming from private sources Hi ere was every reason to believe that this sum would
to found. If it was necessary our mannacturers should find now markets. Our greatest hope in this connection lay in the Empire.—(Reuter).
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1887, 11 August 1920, Page 5
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132EMPIRE EXHIBITION. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1887, 11 August 1920, Page 5
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