BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160725, 11 August 1920, Page 11

BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION

Renter.—August 11, 9 a.m. LONDON, August 9. The House of Commons adopted a resolution authorising the payment of a hundred thousand sterling as the Government's share of the guarantee fund in connection with the’ forthcoming British Empire Exhibition. Mr Eellaway, in moving the resolution, said there was no beiter way of celebrating the great part plaved by the Empire in the war than by holding in London this exhibition of the Empire’s manifold resources and the activities of its peoples. The guarantee was conditional on the guarantee of half a million sterling being forthcoming from private sources. There was every reason to believe the sum would be found. It was necessary that our manufacturers should find new markets, and our greatest hope of securing them lay in the Empire.