SEND A POSTCARD.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4700, 19 May 1924, Page 3

SEND A POSTCARD.

FOR NEW ZEALAND TO THE UNITED KINGDOM. WELLINGTON, Saturday. ’Following is the message from Mr W. Massey, Prime .Minister, on the occasion of Postcard Week. •‘ln order to assist the great Exhibition now being held at Wembley, a movement has been inaugurated by the New Zealand’Chambers of Commerce, whp are asking’ the citizens of the Dominion to each send a postcard to relatives and friends in the United Kingdom, requesting them to visit the Inhibition, and particularly urging them to inspect the New Zealand Court. •‘According to reports which have reached us during the last few weeks the New Zealand Court is thoroughly representative of our principal indust) ies, both primary and secondary products of pur fields, forests, and mines, and opportunities for sport b -’th by laud and water, ailid the characteristics of the native race. “New Zealand, on account of the x isit of the Special Service Squadron of the Royal Navy, has been before the public in Britain just recently, and I have no doubt more than usual interest will therefore be taken in liiis country, which claims, and with reason, that it is more typically British than any other of the overseas countries of the Empire. “ ‘Postcard Week’ is a great opportunity to advertise New Zealand and to. give our kinspeople at Home an idea of what the Dominion can produce, and what has been achieved here during the last three-quarters of. a century. We want them to understand that New Zealand is particularly suitable to be the home of an important section of the British races, and that though we are .separated from them by many thousands of miles of ocean there is no British characteristic in which its citizens are deficient. I sincerely hope that the public, of New Zealand will take full-advantage of the occasion during the coming week and that wholehearted and enthusiastic response will be forthcoming, both cn the part of our people here and also our fellow citizens in Great Britain.—W. F. Massey.’’