WEMBLEY
NEW ZEALAND PAVILION. AN UNWORTHY DISPLAY. (by telegraph —press association.) PALMERSTON N., July 15. Great publicity has lately been given to the fact that the New Zealand pavilion at Wembley, as an advertisement of the potentialities of the Dominion, had utterly failed to reach the expectations of visitors, and the Palmerston North Chamber of Commerce to-night decided to ask the Government to investigate these freely circulated reports. The president of the chamber (Mr H. L. Young) emphasised the serious effects an unworthy display would have on the Dominion, and urged immediate steps to see That the exhibits placed in the pavilion, should do justice to the country they represented. Another member declared that if the statements as published were true, a great injustice had been dona to the Dominion.
The chamber decided to support the retention of 1 per cent, primage duty imposed as a war measure in 1915, and that the several thousands of pounds thus collected annually should be spent on advertising the Dominion. The support of the- member of the district (Mr J. A. Nash) is to be invoked in the matter.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 July 1924, Page 5
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186WEMBLEY Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 July 1924, Page 5
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