EMPIRE EXHIBITION.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1924, Page 3

EMPIRE EXHIBITION.

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(deceived this day at 11.20 a.iu.l J,OX BOX, April 80. '|'l, o Exhibition Board reitchetl a surprising decision, which was not to is. sue the ollieial attendance (ionics. Whatever he the motive lor the decision it is sure to he widely attacked in the press, especially »s many British overseas newspapers me running attendance guessing competitions and t |,e obvious inference that the British public will draw is that the authorities are afraid to publish the fig„res owing to their smallness. The inevitable effect, if the decision is ad]l(,rc(t to, will he to deter large numbers of provincial residents from visiting the Exhibition in the belief that it Is a failure. But there is some hope that the decision will ho reconsidered. To-day’s attendance apparently exceed--0(I yesterday’s. The methods adopted in connection -with the apple sales at the Australian pavilion afford an interesting comparison with the Xew Zealand pavilion where the sales arc personally directir“ i ed by Mr Attwood, the President of the J , Xew Zealand Fruitgrowers’ Federation. Mr Attwood is selling four to oight apples for a shilling, according to size, charging fourteen to twenty-two shillings'" for a c«se, according to variety. the eases being sent carriage forward f,om Covent Carden. Mr Attwood is ihi rehasing his own supplies in the market and all profits, after payment, h r expenses, going to the growers, and

not to a concessionaire, as in the Australian Pavilion. Canada is selling no fruits or produce of any kind. India probably, is the most frankly commercial. for throughout its twenty odd courts, representing separate States, practically every exhibit of every kind is offered for sale, the articles sold being replaced from India. WHMIIBKY SCAN BA 1.. I.OXBOX, April :«>. The "Graphic” chuckles over tinlatest 'Wembley scandal. It relates that when the pavilion was lir.st planned a promiuent Auglo-Zeidnnd artist volunteered to model figures adorning tl,c entrance gratis, provided the Commissioners covered his expenses to Xew Zealand. The Commissioners declined and gave a contract to a British firm, who coincidentally invited the same artist to undertake the task, 'finis Xew Zealand ended by paying a j, e avy sum for the work it could have lip:! fop nothing,