TRADE COMMISSIONER

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 12, 13 July 1935, Page 10

TRADE COMMISSIONER

MR. R. BOULTER'S PLANS

INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, June 22. Mr. E. Boulter, H.M. Trade Commissioner in New Zealand, has had a fortnight'at the office of the Overseas Trade Department, during which time he has been interviewed by business men who are concerned with trade with New Zealand. Mr. Boulter has found conditions in this country more favourable than he anticipated. "On the various occasions I have addressed trade meetings in New Zealand," he said, "I have mentioned the very steady and continuous progress made by the United Kingdom in its recovery so far as economic and financial conditions are concerned. I am very gratified to find, now that I have reached England, that I have not been in any way exaggerating, but, on the contrary, have not done full justice to the extent of this recovery in industry." Mr. Boulter added that he paid a visit to the British Industries Fair at Birmingham, and was very greatly impressed with the wonderful display of hardware and of the products of the engineering trades. He would like to recommend that New Zealand business people visiting this country at the appropriate time should pay a visit to this really wonderful exhibition. The British Industries Fair, both in London and Birmingham, will be held next year from February 17 to February 28. This week Mr. Boulter has begun his three months' tour of the: industrial centres in accordance with the custom of visiting Trade Commissioners. He went first to Leeds, and then goes on to all the important centres of Yorkshire, the North of England, and the Midlands, continuing to Glasgow, Edinburgh, and to Belfast. These visits are by arrangement with the chambers of commerce in the centres visited, and the Trade Commissioner has the use of their offices where he receives representatives of United Kingdom firms interested in trade with New Zealand. The itinerary is varied by an occasional short visit to the DeI partment of Overseas Trade in London, and further by a period of three days at the London Chamber of Commerce.