PRAISE BY KING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19622, 4 May 1938, Page 5

PRAISE BY KING

EMPIRE DISPLAY PALACES AND PAVILIONS GLASGOW EXHIBITION QUEEN DECEIVES GIFTS AUSTRALIA AND DOMINION (Elpc. Tel. Copyright —United Press Asian.) (Reed. May 4, 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, May 3. Guns boomed and aeroplanes roared overhead as the King and Queen opened the Empire Exhibition in the presence of 100,000 people at Glasgow.

The King and Queen first visited the Australian pavilion and the Queen fed a kangaroo with raisins. The Australian High Commissioner, Mr. S. M. Bruce, presented the Queen with toy koalas, which she declared she loved.

Their Majesties spent a long time in the New Zealand pavilion, where they were received by the High Commissioner, Mr. W. J. Jordan, and Mrs. Jordan and a group of officials.

The Queen was delighted with the gift of a pair of sheepskin gloves. She chatted with two dairymaids who were slicing New Zealand butter and remarked how appetising it looked. The Queen also inquired about the price and 'quality of New Zealand bacon. Scotland's Way The King, in opening the exhibition, praised the enterprise, enthusiasm and hard work which made a town of over 100 palaces and pavilions within a little over 10 months. "It is a significant fact that the plans were being prepared when Scotland was under the cloud of a long industrial depression and many people would have hesitated to embark on such a formidable scheme which, moreover, inevitably challenged comparison with Ifie Wembley and other exhibitions, but it is not Scotland's way to be daunted," said the King. "Scotland believes that new enterprise is the safest insurance against a return of the depression

"I sec in the enterprise a symbo of the vitality and initiative on whicl Scotland's continued prosperity wil rest.

Willing Co-operation

"I am well aware that without the generous help and support of the rest of the Empire the exhibition would be impossible. It now stands to testify to the willing co-operation which, I rejoice to think, is the hallmark of the British commonwealth of nations.

The King paid a tribute to the variety of the products and the skill and resource shown in the preparation of the fine pavilions, which he hoped would be the meeting place of members of many nationalities helping towards a better understanding among the peoples of the world. A hopeless break in the traffic and other arrangements marked the opening of the exhibition. Many of the Dominion officials suffered and some were forced to raid their stalls to obtain lunch. Mr. and Mrs. Jordan were forced to travel from the city to the exhibition in a bus.