THE NEW WEMBLEY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19350, 10 December 1924, Page 8

THE NEW WEMBLEY.

NEW ZEALAND PAVILION. DOMINION URGED TO CONTINUE. (From Oub Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, December 9. As you have already been advised it is E Tactically certain that New Zealand will e an exhibitor at the new Wembley. A leading officer of the New Zealand pavilion at the last Wembley, writing to a friend here states: “The Government would be committing a grave error if it decided not to continue the New Zealand section.”

He points out that the six months of spade work already done would be to some extent wasted if the other courts remained open next year and New Zealand withdrew. The building was erected, which was more than could be said on the opening day, and the only expense involved would be that of refurbishing and of maintaining the staff. “As a matter of fact,’’ he writes, “the exhibits are of little importance. The important thing is the opportunity of meeting people and talking with them. Plenty of people of moderate means are seeking to get away from the high income tax. The Exhibition attracts them and they then go round the pavilions and draw comparisons. We meet scores of people with fixed incomes from investments ranging from £250 to £IOOO per year. These people now find themselves below the living line and seek some place where the sum will go further, and will not be eaten up by income tax. Many are going to Italy and France, but numbers are considering New Zealand. It may be held that the High Commissioner’s office is there for the purpose of dealing with such cases but the information staff feels that these’ people would not go to London to make inquiries. Of course, if the other dominions, such as Canada and Australia, were not staying on, we would all be on the same footing, but with our show closed and tlie others open it would mean a great loss of prestige to New Zealand. The ground has been poisoned by letters that have gone to New Zealand, and I suppose the Government has been feeling the hostile criticism, but we feel that great harm will be done if we desert our pavilion.” Most of the criticism of the New Zealand pavilion, he declared, was one-eyed and quite unfair. All comparisons were with Australia and Canada, which spent £lO for every £1 New Zealand had to spend.

The largest illuminating advertisement in the world has been erected at Loughborough, England. It is 512 ft long _ and 40ft high, and consists of lettering painted on the side of a corrugated iron building. Twenty-six flood-light projectors are used to illuminate the sign. A practically unknown episode of the war, in which the Gormans used bees against the British is now revealed, following the death in Rome of BrigadierGeneral Aitken, whoso body was token home to Bath.