BRITISH GOODS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18567, 17 December 1925, Page 9

BRITISH GOODS.

♦—- — FOR BRITISH PEOPLE

RALLY AT MANSION HOUSE,

(BT CAILX— MISS ASSOCIATION— CO?TEI3HT (aiCTBB'S TiLEOHAJiS.)

LONDON. December lo

The Lord Mayor, Sir Wm. l'rykc. presided at a public "Buy Britisn Goods'' meeting at the Mansion House, 110 was supported by Sir Philip Ctin-liffe-Lister, President of the Board of Trade; Mr W. G. Ormsby-Gorc, UnderSecretary for the Colonies, and all High Commissioners.

Sir Cunliffe-Listor described the movement as no "alum,'-' but a national movement, focusing national determination to back up faith in the Empire. Mr Orm.sby-Goro, speaking on l>ehalf of tho Earl of Clarendon, Under-Sec-retary for Dominion Affairs, who was indisposed, urged that tho question of tho increased [purchaso of Empire goods lay at the root of overseas settlement. He emphasised the fact that the present movement regarded the Empire as a single unit, and expressed the opinion that the principal trouble was tho amazing ignorance of Imperial economic geography.

Sir John Cockburn, for Australia, stressed the point that goods must be marked so as to leave no doubt as to whether they are of British or foreign origin. He advocated the immediate registration of a British mark similar to the French and Swiss without waiting the passage of tho Merchandise Marks Bill.