TO ADVERTISE DOMINION

Waikato Times, Volume 93, Issue 14490, 13 October 1920, Page 7

TO ADVERTISE DOMINION

MOVING VIEWS FOR ENGLAND, PRIVATE FIRM'S OPERATIONS. WAIKATO SUPPORT SOUGHT. A project is on foot, fostered by a private firm known as ttic New Zealand Publicity Films, to take cinematograph piclures of the industries of New Zealand, and the scenic beauties of Lie country, and to screen the films in England. Views of Waikato are include i in the scheme, and on Monday Mr G. H. Rees, a representative of the firm, asked the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce f ar practical support in the matter. Mr Parr (chairman) said he had ha 1 a conversation with Mr Rees, who ha I outlined the scheme, and the speaker considered it would he an excellent advertisement for the Waikato, and personally he thought it should receive the chamber’s support. Mr Rees, in outlining the project, pointed out that the idea was to feature in England the special advantages whim New Zealand held for the British emigrants over other Dominions and dependencies. Particularly were they desirous of featuring the industrial life nf the Dominion and its scenic beauties. The scheme had been placed before a number of prominent business men in Auckland who had offered practical support, and also to permit pictures to be taken of their industries. Very little was really knowfl nf the potentialities and possibilities of New Zealand in tae Old Country, and the present was a very opportune time to place this information before (tic people of Drcat Britain —not only for the labouring men, lull people with capital who were desirous of changing their sphere of operations. He knew of no country in the world that would compare with Now Zealand. In England very little was known of the milking machine, for instance, and they wanted to stmw the operations of the great dairying industry, and especially as it was camel on in Waikato, which was now the premier dairying district of the. Dominion, letting the people see how the milk was handled and converted into various products. Mr Brownrigg, who was associated with him, and would lecture on Ihe films, was a well-known platform man and orator. The speaker said he had interviewed a number of well-known business men .if Hamilton and had been promised support. Inc project was a private one, with a com mercial aspect. What they were looking for was, of course, the harvest tha‘ would come in in a couple of years rr so, when the selected emigrants commenced to arrive. They i.lhe promoters: would, in their office, have a list, nf tiiese emigrants and their requirements, and would he aide t• > plaee them nil the land or in billets as limy came. The project was a big one and was wed organised. They hoped |o ge| assis!once from the overseas m-lDement Association. Air W. F. Mason .Deputy-Mayor) regarded the project as a -good one. There were, be said, more men in England at the present time than before the war. Tills sounded remarkable, bit :t was a fact nevertheless, and it should he the desire of all Britishers lo distribute their surplus through the Bri K -,i Dominions instead of allowing them pi ga to America or oilier countries. M • ! hough I the Borough Council coulu give Hie promoters of the scheme some 1 radical assistance in arranging* for suitable views.

Mr Ur"* said lint up lo <l.ll f> liny In* removed something 1 ikr* £*> ir> in suhsidies, ;iii‘l I liny eslinn I •'< I lint '--000 would In required. They Ind ml an plied |n the (loverninent for support. The four would take JO months to a> cumidish.

M r .1. |mwley considered that if t.h ■ project was going to 1"’ Hie means o. bringing out men without money, the emigrants were only going lo he sadly let down. Improved land in New Zealand was higher in price than similar land in England, and he thought that men with capital in England would do Letter to buy up farms in the Old Country. There were hundreds of men without money in New Zealand at the present time looking for land—many :[ them returned soldiers—who could not gel it, and men coming out from England with rosy prospects painted for them, would strike a great disappointment here on arrival. He thought tint, a great weakness was shown in tin necessity for such a project as that existing. If the people of Groat Brita n were ignorant of the conditions in N-w Zealand, there was something sad'a wrong with the High Commission-.r’s efllce. Mr Gilbert considered that a large proportion of the farmers of Waikato were holding 7 per cent more land than they could profitably utilise. There was heaps of room, in his opinion, for an influx of settlers. Mr Rees was accorded a hearty vote ( J (hanks for his address, and was promised support by several members present.