THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
Tut-: Gateway or E.\irittt*. Filtering the Exhibition at Wembley, millions of British subjects "ill ascend the heights of Empire. Spicnd before them is the wondrous reality of Britain's might and magnitude—her grandeur and or glory. Riches and romance, am ,-nt civilisation (lowering in modern enterprise, the limitless range of activity and achievement the scene is without parallel in the history o’ mankind. Within the master gateway of Wembley are a bundled inner gates of Empire. They give access to the live continents ami all the seas; to the mystic East, the stirring West, the sterner North, the romantic South. They lead to tropical gardens. to groves of palm, banana and orange: to plantations of eolfeo. tea. sugar, rubber and cotton, to goldfields and diamond mines; to ostrich farms and sheep stations; to busy Oriental bn/anis and the lonely haunts of trappers. No lo—s challenging in their compelling in. tel'e-t are the gates of Science: of Stephenson. Watt. Faraday and Arkwright: or llm great Gates of Industry: of wool, notion, steel and leather. Wembley throbs with variegated life—a vivid, unforgettable realisation of Empire.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1924, Page 2
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186THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1924, Page 2
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