SYDNEY FESTIVAL

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 97, 18 January 1935, Page 13

SYDNEY FESTIVAL

Plans For Advertising New Zealand Very keen to see New Zealand represented by a float .in the great street parade which marks the annual Sydney Festival Week, held each year between November 22 and 29, Mrs. Stanley Ilempton, formerly of Wellington, and for the past eight years of Australia, is at present on a holiday in the Dominion. Mrs. Ilempton, who is one of the three women members of the executive committee of the Citizens of Sydney Organising Committee, told "The Dominion yesterday that the Kia Ora New Zealand Club in Sydney would be only too glad to organise the float if support were accorded by the Dominion. It would do much to place New Zealand before the public eye during the festival week, and so would be a good advertisement and assist in improving the relations of the two countries. Mrs. Hempton said she has seen the Prime Minister. Rt. Hon. G.-W. Forbes, and the Mayor of Wellington, Mr. T. C. A. Hislop, and they had agreed it would be a good thing if there could be a New Zealand float. The Citizens’ Committee found its inspiration for the annual festival in the scenes in the streets when the Harbour Bridge was opened in 1932, and so the carnival committee was organised on a permanent basis.