EMPIRE SHOPPING WEEK

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 356, 17 May 1928, Page 14

EMPIRE SHOPPING WEEK

TO BE HELD IN THREE CEN® NEW POSTERS FROM ENCtA» Press AssociationWELLINGTON, Ti»*fc _ Empire Shopping Weeks are to - held in at least three centres Dominion very shortly, cnr JS c t>. Gisborne and New Plymouth. _ office of the British Trade sioner in Wellington has sent organisers at each place i*Bsarray of posters published oy . pire Marketing Board in h®Dpart of the board’s publicity Most of these posters are to New Zealand, but some ft* seen here before. They are pr very popular in the larger population in England. A huge sheet, which w® considerable space and a gooa . display, is called “Empire buu is not unlike a history . e , estingly pictorial form. In the I* of their old-time uniform. *r turesque mufti of mediaeval seen almost life size gzof such great men as Coo** . t, ings, Raffles, Gordon, ingstone. Rhodes, Clive. * , ham. Raleigh. Drake, Cabot A somewh:.t futuristic roaP • Southern Dominions urn jje&Z' wealth and products of -> e . South Africa and Australia. gj-*. out that there are 15,0**™* * citizens in these three cc> —oiV that they bought £ goods from Britain hetwse . and June of last year. illustrate the various of the Dominions and th grfSOfof the Old County, and or; The Dairy Farm of the w v be a butter factory" > n t b ** what looks like Mount Egn> in the background. Mr. L. B. Beale, the Commissioner here. 13 in : t Letters from him by the' - : he had been in Scotland was back again in K n K : ’ . ncf# . extensive tour °f the p fflce ia the end of this month hisOf; ington is moving Ir ° m h ne ir TJJ end of Grey Street to the P" <?< G. building at the corner Street and Lambton Quay.