WEMBLEY
NEW ZEALAND PAVILION (B» Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. 1 .Au • tvaMan A N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, July 14. Tiie attendance at the New Zealand pavilion cinema at Wemblev to-oped 150,000. The Imperial Economic Committee spent a day at Wembley inspecting the Australian, New Zealand, Canadian and South African pavilions. During the stay in the Australian pavilion members beard a large party of public school boys repeat the war cry now taught daily in the. exhibition to similar parties—" Keep your own money in your own. Empire." Each party receives a gift of an Australian flag. The committee certainly found the Australian and New Zealand pavilions the liveliest of Wembley, where oven a reduction in tile combined railway and entrance charges lias not revived the daily attendances.
A daily prize of £IOO for the nearest guess to the daily attendance is the latest device to retrieve tile exhibition’s fortune.
In the Empire essnv competition by the Society of Women Journalists, James Bertram, of Oamaru, won the hoys’ prize of £lO.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 16 July 1925, Page 5
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