HATS OUT OF RABBITS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 182, 19 November 1941, Page 6

HATS OUT OF RABBITS

TELL BRITAIN'S ALLIES ABOUT

THE EMPIRE

"Conjurors can produce rabbits out of hats. It is more difficult to produce a hat' out of a rabbit; j r et this is done every day by hat manufacturers." So London's Imperial Institute wittily announces a display Showing how New Zealand turns its rabbit pest in a national asset —one of many vivid exhibits by which the Institute each day pictures the Empire's vast resources to parties eluding many Poles, Czechs, Belgians, Free French, Dutch and Norwegians now" fighting alongside Britain.

In the galleries, where dioramas and story exhibits bring together under a single roof the remotest corners of the Empire, director Sir Harry Lindsay and his staff have evolved a technique of their own for displaying the Empire's resources. In normal times their visitors are mainly school children, parties of whom come to the Institute, even in wartime, to wander among the goldfields of the Rand, the frozen uplands of the Falkland Islands and the sugar plantations of Jamaica, fn the cinema they may see ill ins of salmon catching and canning in British Columbia or the life and Scenery of India. Xow that thousands of them are evacuated to the country. Institute lecturer-, each with a district of his own. are taking the la'e of Empire t<; the sehooN. Since 'he war. films have been loaned

( lit to the connir.yside free of eharg<

Tiie in-UituU-'s latest venture i:s to show by poster the processing of .such Empire products as Ceylon coconuts. C r gan-'!;i cotton seed. Trinidad lake asphall. West Indian eanc sugar ("i'-Tom Cane to Candy''*) and Sea Island Cotton "The Story of « Shirt").