NEW PREMISES WANTED.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11871, 8 June 1909, Page 5

NEW PREMISES WANTED.

NEW ZEALAND'S LONDOIf \ y % officer , ;, "A ; London correspondent wriWd :<~-Tho High Commissioner is still engaged m pongidaring various ait es m Central tondon for new "premises f or the " London offices of' the New Zealand Government. ; He has. not decided yet sitfcs to recommend t6 his Government, btit he ,; he has His ejre on one m the Strand,- , •which, if it can pc secured on a reason? able lease, would m his opinion serve the purpose admirably. The 'great thorough- -. fare which tuns from Charing. Crops to Fleet Street' is becoming »n Anglo Colonial , under; the : new advertising policy which • the .VoriuuS , oversea Dominions' are adopting m this country. The Canadian Dominion, Vxd T , toria • (Australia), , Rhodesia (South Africa), and- Ontario (Canrtda), liavo started' window-displays at' Charing Cross and m the Strnd' where <fh bo seen at a, glance the products of .their countries^ , • / (Hheivciilonies are the supply of similar object lessons. The aim is.to bring about closer commevcial relations] with this voitntryj, 'nnd to show that' England need not depend on foreign .countries for her food supplies or for, .the raw materials of umrty if 'heir niahnlactiireß. N • ' •..'., The official pn charge of the Rhpdeeian depot says' tlie v 'results of the shop-win-dow policy have .been .excellent. V! lt is surprising to Hud how vague is the knowledge 'of ' the' orcHha vy Englishman ■■■abqj.it his colonies," he said, '"and until he sees \yith -his own eyes the actual products of his lands rtcross the seas he gets mi conception of their wealth and 'possibilities. Men who. passing by, ljave caught fight of thfe pictures of Rhodesia and -of, the samples o -jf our corn, tobacco, , beans, and cotton j |have come iiv to- mnke enquiries, and ; hnvo been astonisiied a| the and Quality 1 <if /nirprodtiittfi. T%y have : been », <leiigli'ted;>n(l m ?WWib>,crt** ■ the visits iin vo led ' to important tmsinefH , transn c- . -. v tions. Jt is thus tliat \Ve aro laying the foiindotibns of a .grout comnieVoial union with, the Mother Coimtry.''