EMPIRE EXHIBITION

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11583, 28 July 1923, Page 5

EMPIRE EXHIBITION

DOMINION ADVISORY COUNCIL. . DAIRY AND FRUIT EXHIBITS. Tlie members present at the last meeting of tho Dominion Advisory Council of the Empire Exhibition were Messrs W. S. Bennett (in the chair), F. R. Bushel I, T. C. Brash, T. 0. Bishop, A. Leigh Hunt, W. D. Hunt, and G. H. Young. Tho chairman stated that the council had recently sent n cable to tbo High Commissioner asking him to sea Mr Attwood, president of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers’ Association, and suggesting that, the lal tor should report on the progress of the fruifex* liihit at the Condon end. The High Commissioner, however, had rallied that Mr Attwood had left a week before the receipt of the rabh*. hut that ho had ail tho materia! with him to submit a report on his arrival in New Zealand. The opinion was expressed at the meeting jlmt 1 it.l7• * <!ifli• • < l lly would ho experienced in s’ -urin”; sufficient fruit for the exhibition 'em the coming season’s \iehl. Matters in connection with the dairy exhibit were discussed, csprcjally from the point of view of adequate representation in regard to (dm preparation and car-- of the exhibit, at the London end. Mr Branli stat'd that the dairv people would he very pirawrd if .Mr Wright, who w:is now representing tho Agriculture Department in T.ondon, could take charge of the *• k 1 1 i 1 >it-, and a conference in regard to this matter was to fie held Tim sirretarv reported ihnt good responses were being made in regard to Mag*’ Jmads for dienhnv at Dm‘exhibition. and !h’.»i tlnw" was every prospee* o: -’iVnf r-'pisrc nI a f ion 'in thh ?*‘wpei ! . Ir-wn: for furniture to he used at Hie • *•ih 11 io'i, to l»e made from New /'■aland wo>d-;. w'U'c submitted, and weie atnu’nved hv the council. The furniture will be covered with Now Zealand feather.