CORONATION SOUVENIRS

Evening Star, Issue 22448, 19 September 1936, Page 15

CORONATION SOUVENIRS

JAPAN ANNEXES SUBSTANTIAL ORDERS FLAGS AT SMALL PRICE [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, September 18.. A prominent Wellington commercial firm has received a letter from one of its representatives drawing attention to a curious feature in connection with the manufacture of Coronation souvenirs and their importation into New Zealand. Preparations. are being made by manufacturers in England to cater for a big demand in various parts of the Empire in May next in time for the King’s Coronation. The 'writer states, however, that large orders from all over New Zealand have alreadv gone to Japan,- These orders include amongst others thousands of Union Jacks and New Zealand flags for school children at ridiculously cheap prices. For some time past there have been in English trade and other journals illustrations of English-made souvenirs of all kinds. These have been copied by Japanese, manufacturers, and most of the British national Coronation souvenirs of many classes of goods will therefore come from Japan. These goods can be bought at less than half the price of the English goods.