EMPIRE EXHIBITION
NEW ZEALAND EXHIBITS. WOOL AND FLAX. (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, January 27. When it was decided towards the end of last year that the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley would be re-opened this year, it was found that it would be necessary to renew portions of the New Zealand wool exhibit. Mr N. M. Orbell, who was prominent in getting together the original wool exhibit, was asked by the Department of Industries and Commerce to collect the additional fleeces required. Mr Orbell, with whom Mr J. Schmidt, of the head office of the Department, was associated, has completed the collection of over 150 fleeces, which are considered as quite equal to the fleeces originally sent. Mr Schmidt told a reporter to-day that he was very pleased with the quality of the additional fleeces. They will be shipped by the steamer Matatua, which it to sail towards the end of the present week. A request has been received for an exhibit of goods manufactured from New Zealand flax, and Mr Schmidt has made arrangements for such an exhibit.
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Southland Times, Issue 19461, 28 January 1925, Page 7
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180EMPIRE EXHIBITION Southland Times, Issue 19461, 28 January 1925, Page 7
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