EMPIRE MARKETING BOARD

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 204, 30 August 1933, Page 7

EMPIRE MARKETING BOARD

EXTINCTION INOPPORTUNE. LONDON, August 20. That extinction of the Empire Marketing Board comcs opportunely for Japan is deducible from a letter in "The Times," in which members of various committees of the hoard declare that foreign competitors are counter-attack-ing to regain markets of which the "Buy British" policy deprived them. . They add that the board's disappearance is a stroke of luck of which foreign competitors until recently never dreamed. They have learned much from the board, and will reappear in the markets more formidably than ever. The signatories are forming an association called "Friends of Empire Marketing," inviting the adherence of all traders with similar views in order to promote marketing activities, and awaken the Government to the importance of preserving the board's work, thereby helping Home and colonial producers to extend and hold British markets. "What is now particularly in view is the quickening of trade within the Empire on mutual lines," said the Canadian High Commissioner, Mr. Ferguson, on his return to Ottawa from London. Abolition of the Marketing Board and substitution of a plan of co-operation between the British Government and the Dominions offices in London for trade development are forecast. There is to be a more intensive campaign not to "Buy British" but to "Buy Empire" products.