WYNDHAM CHEESE AT GLASGOW

Southland Times, Issue 23548, 30 June 1938, Page 3

WYNDHAM CHEESE AT GLASGOW

SALES AT EXHIBITION PAVILION WIDESPREAD DISTRIBUTION MADE (By J. H. HALL, Officer-in-charge New Zealand? Pavilion, Glasgow Exhibition.) GLASGOW, May 20. Scots folk in Wyndham and district may be interested and possibly pleased to know that, although just about the farthest away of any of their kinsmen from this great centre of Scotland’s nationhood—the Empire Exhibition in Glasgow—they are contributing in a small way to its brilliant success. Among the activities of the New Zealand Pavilion—itself but a small unit in a vast enterprise—is the selling of samples of dairy produce; quarterpounds and half-pounds of butter and ' two-penny samples of cheese. This week the cheese has been from the Wyndham factory. I should have preferred it to have come from Edendaie (how we cling to our little loyalties!), but the really important point is that it is from Southland, because tho Dairy Sales Division naturally apportions, for exhibition sales, cheese and butter recognized to be of the very highest quality. The pavilion is selling up to 2000 samples of cheese a day and averaging about 1500, so the product _ is finding a pretty widespread distribution among the people of the Glasgow area at any rate, if not in all Scotland. HOPES REALIZED It would be idle to estimate only a fortnight after its opening what the ultimate success of the Empire Exhibition will be, but there can be no doubting that its beginnings have Unfilled the most ambitious hopes of the promoters and won high plaudits throughout the Kingdom. One of Scotland’s finest urban parks has been converted into an Empire in miniature, and the people of the homelands are flocking to it in their hundreds of thousands. Already comparisons are being drawn with Wembley, with the ' balance in Glasgow’s favour. “The many varieties of indescribable weather with which Scotland fortifies her children” —the phrase is from Lord Tweedsmuir —have been held in leash, and for the most part nature has smiled upon the exhibition. The first week Was as sunny and warm as any in a New Zealand November, and although at the beginning of this week winter came back for a couple of days, the heavy rain which it brought has given new life to gardens and lawn plots. For so early in the season the number of New Zealand visitors is unusually high; and, exile-like, they have mostly made straight for the New Zealand Pavilion on entering the exhibition. By far the greater number have been complimentary of the display made there, although there is a general feeling among New Zealanders, both visiting and resident in England and Scotland, that the Dominion could have done with a little more space in which to display her resources. While the ground space of the building is roughly the same as that taken up by the Australian, South African and Eire Pavilions, and although the display made by officers of the High Commissioner’s Department is in most respects excellent, there is so much to show, if it be desired to give a truly representative picture of New Zealand in all its aspects, that a little more room would have been welcome. On the other hand, the Exhibition will cost each of the Dominions a good deal more than it is costing New Zealand, with, perhaps, no greater, and maybe even a smaller return. OBJECT OF PAVILION

Accurate measurement of return in such an undertaking is well-nigh impossible, but in general it may be assumed that the object is to present the country to exhibition patrons, as chief supplier to the United Kingdom of meat and dairy produce, as one of the finest and happiest holiday lands in ail the world, and as still offering opportunities for emigrants with courage and resource to equal that which our forefathers took from this country 70 and 80 years ago. The New Zealand Pavilion attempts to fulfil all three of these objects, with the stress upon primary

production, and it is evident from the questionings and careful inspection of visitors that the attempt has not been made in vain. Two outstanding impressions of the first fortnight are the interest of the Scottish people in New Zealand—an interest traceable to a broad-based democratic system of education comparable to our own, and to the many personal links between the two countries; and second, a very real desire on the part of scores of young men and many young women to leave the Old Country and build their lives and homes in New Zealand.

THE METAL MARKET (Received June 29, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, June 29. Metals are quoted as follows: — T June 27 June 29 iS s d £ s 'jl

THE BUTTER MARKET QUIET TONE IN LONDON (Received June 29, 6.40 pjn.) LONDON, June 28. The butter market is quiet. Quotations: Choicest salted New Zealand, 124/-; choicest salted Australian, 122/to 123/-; unsalted New Zealand, 125/to 126/-; unsalted Australian, 123/- to 124/-. MINING MOLYNEUX DREDGE (United Press Association) DUNEDIN, June 29. The Molyneux Dredge reports a return of 151 oz for 221 hours’ work for the period ended June 25. THE PRICE OF GOLD LONDON, June 29. The price of gold is £7 0/9 an ounce.

Copper— Standard, spot 37 16 10>/ 2 37 5 0 Forward 38 3 iy 2 37 11 Electrolytic 41 5 0 41 15 0 to 42 15 0 42 5 0 Wire bars 42 15 0 42 5 0 LeadSpot 15 1 10 >,' 2 14 8 m Forward 15 0 7*/s 14 8 Speller— Spot 14 1 3 13 6 3 Forward 14 4 4>/ 2 13 11 10’/ 2 TinSpot 187 10 0 185 6 3 Forward 188 2 6 186 2 6 SilverFine, per oz. 19 l-16d 19 l-16d Standard, per oz 20 9-16d 20 916a