EMPIRE EXHIBITION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19258, 23 August 1924, Page 9

EMPIRE EXHIBITION

THE NEW ZEALAND PAVILION. A SPLENDID ADVERTISEMENT. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON. August 21. (Received August 22, at 5.5 p.m.) It is estimated that one-third of the 10,000,000 visitors to the Exhibition have entered the New Zealand Pavilion-nan average of 50,000 a day. Thousands of cases of apples, 23,000 samples of honey, and 25,000 packets of butter have been sold, reaching homes all over Britain. A grocer in a provincial town told the authorities that he had double his sales of New Zealand butter owing to the publicity at Wembley. There have been numerous migration inquiries, including many middle-class professional men desiring a change of occupation, with capital ranging from £2OO to several thousands Many European inquiries for flax, pelts, rabbit skins, woollens, rugs, timbers, meat, butter, and milk products have been received.—Sydney Sun Cable. RE-OPENING GENERALLY DIS- * APPROVED. LONDON, August 21. Replies have been received from all the dominions except Newfoundland in reference to the continuance of Wembley in 1925. They are unanimously opposed to the proposal on the ground mainly of expense in maintaining tho staffs and renewing the exhibits.--Router.