THE EMPIRE EXHIBITION.
NEW ZEALAND PAVILION. REQUEST FOR INVESTIGATION. i : - . fBX TELEGBAPH. —OWTf CORBESPOKDENT.] PAUCBBSTOBT NOSTH. Tueeday Great publicity has lately been given to the fact that the New Zealand pavilion at Wembley as an advertisement of this potentialities of the Dominion had utterly failed to reach the expectations of visitors, and the Palmerstcn North Chamber of Commerce to-night decided to ask the Government to investigate these freely-circulated reports. The president of the Mr. H. L. Young, emphasised the serious effects an unworthy display would have upon the Dominion, and urged immediate steps to see that the exhibits placed in the pavilion should do justice to the country they represented; Another member declared that* if the statements a3 published were true great injustice had been done to the Dominion. The chamber decided to support the retention of 1 per cent, primage duty imposed as a war measure in 1915, ana that the money thug collected should be spent on advertising the Dominion.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18762, 16 July 1924, Page 10
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