NEW ZEALAND INTEREST

Otago Witness, Issue 4041, 25 August 1931, Page 27

NEW ZEALAND INTEREST

THE GOVERNOR'S CUP. (From Our Own Co jespondent.) LONDON, July 10

The large silver cup which his Excellency the Governor-General (Lord Bledisloe) presented for annual competition by New Zealand exhibitors in the apple classes at the Royal Horticultural Show (London) is still on exhibition in the window of the High Commissioner’s Office, 415 Strand. It appears in the forefront of an excellent display of New Zealand apples, arranged by the Government publicity officer. A card affixed announces the facts regarding the cup, and also the name of the winner, Mr H. E. Stephens, of Nelson. The “ apple window.” by the way. has proved an excellent advertisement for many weeks past. The background is a revolving wheel, studded with apples on the edges, which appear to be carried out of a box held by a New Zealander and received into the lap of a British maiden. In front of this again, in the midst of baskets of apples, is a working model of a child seated in a chair, offering an apple to a little terrier dog, which moves its head and wags its tail in anticipation of a gift it never receives. New Zealand apples have been featured in this window throughout the present season. VALUABLE PUBLICITY. Mr F. M. Collins, manager of the Junior Army and Navy Stores, Aldershot, has sent the following letter to the Government publicity officer in London (Mr H. T. B. Drew): — “ I am writing to express my appreciation of the cordial assistance which you extended to ourselves at the Aldershot Show. I am sure the result will be mutually beneficial; we shall do all we can to follow up your splendid efforts, and anticipate a greater demand for New Zealand goods. Please accept my sincere thanks for your kind co-operation.”

EXHIBIT AT SOUTH KENSINGTON. It may be recalled that at the Empire Minerals Exhibition in the Imperial Institute. held from February to May, New Zealand was represented by an excellent display of a thoroughly representative character which had been forwarded by the Government at the desire of the High Commissioner (Sir Thomae Wilford). Reporting to the High Commissioner upon the exhibition, the principal of the Minerals Research Department of the institute said: —

“ The exhibition was opened on February 17 by Mr L. S. Amery, and continued open until the first week in May. A considerable number of people visited it from first to last, including mining engineers and others directly interested in mining. A number of lectures were given on the Empire’s mineral resources, including two by Sir Robert Horne, C.8.E., K.C., M.P.. and Sir Edwin Pascoe, M.A.. F.G.S.. director of the Geological Survey of India. Throughout the exhibition’s run the kinema of the Empire Marketing Board at the Imperial Institute was continually showing British films, including those of New Zealand, and on the whole it can be safely said that the exhibition proved to be of great educational value.

“As to any results obtained for New Zealand, it is impossible for the Imperial Institute to say, for the promoter of any exhibition is never in a position to answer such a question. You are no doubt aware that there is a section on New Zealand’s minerals in the ‘ Survey of the Mineral Position of the British Empire,' which has been on sale since the opening ■of the exhibition.”