PANAMA PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13747, 9 April 1915, Page 8

PANAMA PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

New Zealand's pavilion at tho above named Exposition was officially dedicated on March 3rd. Tho main room is devoted to illustration of New Zealand's woollen manufactures and the Dominion's agricultural products. At the rear of the pavilion there is a «mall conservatory, at tlio right of tho entrance a reception room, and on the left an information bureau.

The ceremonies were hold (Bays the

'■Australian News Letter") on the steps -of the Now Zealand building. The United States flag and. the Union Jack fluttered in the breeze. Hundreds of former New Zealanders, who now live in San Francisco and in the bay cities, were present and cheered and applauded every mention of a name or a place dear to Now Zoalandors. A band of Maori girls and men were given a place of honour in the portico. As a part of the dedication ceremonies they danced the fierce war dances of the New Zealand Natives, those very dances which in times past steeled them to war against the white

men, but which now ate but a memory. The dusky, nimble* dancers laughed as they went through tho fierce motions of the spear dance.

A note of peace and genuine friendliness permeated the entire ceremony, and <vas accentuated when Mr Edmund Olifton, Commissioner from Now Zealand, declared ho -expected tho time would come within the life of the Exposition, when the President of the United States would be able to bring about universal r>eaoe.