AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1924, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

lUSTBALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. NEW YORK DEMAND. , NEW YORK, At arch 26. A telegram from Albany, New York, says the State Senate of New York, apparently disavowing the State Assembly’s adverse action on Alarch 4th. lias adopted a resolution memoralising the United States’ Congress on behalf of the modification of the \ olstead Law, permitting light wines and beers. This attitude, while emphasising the contrast between a. Republican Assembly and a Democratic Senate, is likewise regarded as forecasting probable partisan alignments on the question during the forthcoming national conventions. I lie resolution, liowctoi, is doomed to certain defeat when it comes up fur consideration in the Assembly. EAIPIUE EXHIBITION. NEW YORK, Alarch 26. American correspondents ol London newspapers are cabling lung accounts of a woeful lack of concerted effort in the conduct of the advertising campaign in America oil behalf of the Empire Exhibition. They assert the United States is being left alone by the Exhibition’s publicity managers, even posters are not being distributed, ibis is a serious mistake, since it is estimated a quarter of a million American tourists will visit Europe during the coining summer, and with the average American knowing little or nothing ol the Exhibition’s details many will miss going to London completely. It. is pointed out the Dominions will be great losers thereby, because English goods are already known in the tinted States, while Dominion products, which could find a vast market there, are comparatively unknown. The Australian press association learns that approximately £12,009 is-planned for Exhibition advertising in the I niled States, hut this is so inadequate that the managers were advised to forego a campaign.