Imperial Exhibition

Hokitika Guardian, 10 May 1922, Page 4

Imperial Exhibition

ARRIVAL OF A MEMBER OF THE MISSION.

WELLINGTON, May 8. A passenger by the Manuka to-day from Sydney was Mr F.’ Ilium, Agricultural Adviser to the British Empire M fission which is touring the Empire in preparation for tie Imperial Exhibition to he held in Wembley Park in 1921. Mr Ilium was met by Mi •!. f’oilius, of the Department of Industrie sand Commerce, anil Mr F. S. Pope, Department of Agriculture.

(1 Mr Ilium is one* of the advisers to jj. the Minister of Agriculture in Great Britain, and was om- of the founders of the National lus'itntc of Agriculture .j, an I Botany, which was opened last year by his Majesty the King. For the I last two years of ti e war he was Dirccv tor of V* gt-tahle Supplies to the Ministry of Food. The other members of too Mission arc Major E. A. Belcher, J” C.8.E.. Colonel ■Christie', D. 5.0., and 1 Mr F. W. Bates, secretary. They will come lo New Zealand aft'r visiting St null Africa and Australia, in about two months’ time. The purpose of the Mission is to discuss with the Government and with interested bodies the part which New 0 /.aland will take in the Exhibition in regard to the const nut ion of the pavilion, tie nature and presentation of " the exhibits, and proposals for Imperial sections dealing with fisheries, tropical 1 diseases, plants, and animals; also ' agricultural research regarding nia- ’ r.'.ces, lli _r' [. rust on wheat, ami plant L breeding of every desci iption. The Mission also proposes to consider how far the Dominions can supply the ' Homeland with her requirements. I “It is hoped,” said Mr lliam to a 1 Press representative to-day, “that at 1 Hie Exhibition the British public will lie able to fully realise what their brothers oveiseas can do. Many conferences \vill he held to discuss how best to inrease trade and commerce throughout the Empire, and much good is sure to result.” It will he remembered that tie Prince of Wales, who is president of the exooiilivc committee which is arranging for the Exhibition, made nil appeal for a million guarantee fund, lie told a Mansion House meeting that he wished to see this guarantee completed befo.e he left for India, and the result was that the whole sum was found within a few days. Mr lliam will leave for the South Island to-morrow or on Wednesday, ami after a wool: there will go north to the Taranaki and Waikato 'districts.