INTEREST GROWS IN CENTENNIAL

Southland Times, Issue 23783, 3 April 1939, Page 6

INTEREST GROWS IN CENTENNIAL

Many Inquiries From

Overseas

MUCH HEAVY WORK STILL TO BE DONE

(United Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 2., Interest abroad in New Zealand’s centennial celebrations at the end of the present year was becoming, noticeably evident, stated the Minister of Internal Affairs ( the Hon. W. E. Parry) on Saturday. The publicity arranged by the Government by way of descriptive posters, booklets and other illustrated literature and letters was having the effect of bringing inquiries all showing that overseas people were likely to find the Dominion’s great event, the celebrations and comprehensive exhibition and fair to mark it sufficiently attractive to make a visit. “We are now getting along much better with our plans,” Mr Parry said. “There is a great deal of heavy work to be done during the next eight months and various schemes are now being consolidated. It would startle the hardest and most enterprising organizer and worker to see the problems and other matters involved in the lay-out for the celebrations that all must be settled. There should not be anything left undone which would mar the smooth working of the plans for the celebrations.”

The Minister added that the historical publications of the centennial would be of absorbing interest as they would bring to light many features of New Zealand forgotten by the oldest inhabitants and not known by the young people of today.