WEMBLEY EXHIBITION.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 November 1924, Page 2

WEMBLEY EXHIBITION.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAIILE ASSOCIATION. LONDON*, Xovemher 7. Lord Devonshire presided at a dinner given by the liritish Empire League to the Wembley Commissioners. There was a distinguished gathering representing forty-one putt tons of the Empire. In proposing the toast of "Our (•nests,” l.oid Devonshire declared that he was confident that the Exhibition would he re-opened in 1925. '1 here were certain difficulties, of which he had no doubt, a solution would lie found, lie claimed that the Exhibition had resulted in an entirely different conception of the Empire. Ihe Dewan i t Bahadur (India), in responding, declared that lie felt as much a sun ot the Empire as a New Zealand or South African representative. Mo had a feeling of full .sonship and equal rights with the other sons of the Empire. Me confessed a shameless and unrestrained pride in

the Empire. Air A tilery (Colonial Secretary) said the display showed what the Empire might be it the resources of the Empire were pooled. A similar exhibition twenty or thirty years hence would do something lur beyond present day imagination. The Coverunieiit, therefore. was of the opinion that the exhibition ought not. to lie allowed to come to tin untimely end. It had brought home the possibilities of the Empire to a considerable section of the population. The Government wanted the whole of the people to understand what it meant. Therefore, it certainly meant to see that this exhibition not only was continued, hut was continued more effectively than in the past months.

COY EH X.M.EXT A SSI ST A XCE. I.OXDOX, Xovemher IS. Colonel Amery, at a dinner, said that in order to continue the Wembley Exhibition, the Onvernment was prepared to do more financially than had been done in the past to make 925 the winning half of the Exhibition's life. Lord Devonshire said that although been done in the past to make 1925 finite announcement, he was as sc to as he stood there that tlie Exhibition's we.do be continued. Mr Huberts, (Xew Zealand), replying oil behalf of the Dominion Commissioners, hoped that the Hxl'tliition would prove like Saturday’s Al* Black football mulch to him. saving: “The first half was not unsaiisfa-10-y, hut the second half was a sheer do light,”