PUSHING TRADE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 48, 26 February 1923, Page 5

PUSHING TRADE.

AUSTRALIANS IN BRITAIN. LONDON. February i>. A delegation representative of ihe Australian fruit trade inspected the facilities for handling produce at Hull, and attended at a joint meeting of the Chamber of Trade and the Chamber of Commerce, at which Mr. Austin Wilson delivered an address on direct trade between Australia ami Hull. Mr. C-. E. 1). Meares said that Australians regarded trade within the Empire as more than a mere ideal. and were giving effect to it. He specially mentioned the standardisation of Australian first grade butter under one brand. He suggested the formation of a committee at Hull to encourage direct, trading. Referring to decentralisation. he said that if Hull traders could showby their business actions and preferential buying that they were anxious to distribute Australian goods with the country of origin marked on the packages, the delegation would lie justified in saying that everything possible must lie done to establish decentralisation. Mr. McDougall said: ''We will prefer Hull if you will, as far as possible, prefer Australian goods." The delegation afterwards met the grocery and fruit, sections of the Chamber of Trade, and discussed details of plans for putting Australian goods into consumption in the North of England.