THE WORST OVER.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4944, 26 February 1926, Page 3

THE WORST OVER.

CONDITIONS IN ENGIiAND.

HOW WEMBLEY HELPED.

. “Manufacturing and commercial conditions are improving in England,” said Mr Justly Rawlings, managing director of Anthony Hordern and Sons, Ltd., a,nd one of the Australian Commissioners! to the Wembley Exhibition, who returned to Sydney recently. “Compared with 12 months - ago .there were many signs of optimism when I came away,” he “M ( any men I met in“ England—men holding important positions—seemed to think that, the worst had passed. Unemployment had. declined, greatly.

“There is no doubt that Wembley achieved everything it set out to. gain. It was more thapi justified, and, if we had spent' two or three .times the money in advertising Australia, we would have got full value for tha expenditure. •- No other form of advertising could, have been so effective. . “The Australian Pavilion was admittedly the brightest pavilion in the show. Seventy-five per cent, of -.the people who went to Wembley visited the Australian Pavilion. The dioramas —sheep stations, timber, and wheat ■ country—were a great attraction?’ Mr Rawlings said that, although some of the newspapers devoted a fair, amount of space to Australiain doings, the English press' did not contain a great deal of serious news—the items, that would help to make Australia better known and appreciated on the other side of the world.