BRITAIN'S INDUSTRIAL POSITION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 26, 31 January 1907, Page 7

BRITAIN'S INDUSTRIAL POSITION.

A SEARCHING INVESTIGATION. < £PK*BS ASSOCIATION.] LONDON, 30th January. Mr. Lloyd-George, President of the Board of Trade, informed a deputation of commercial men at Walsall, in Staffordshire, that tho Government was conducting a searching investigation into the industries of foreign countries, especially Germany. The Government was also improving the Intelligence Department of tho Board of Trado and the Consular service. Tho Minister remarked that the census of industrial production which it had been xlecided to take would reveal Britain's truo national position, and show whether she xtaß going backward or forward. If tHp facts smashed Hs fiscal theories, the \ sooner the smj.hh camo the better. Mr. Lloyd-George uddod that the Government intended to reviso the patent laws in the direction of compelling foreigners possessing British protection to work thoir patents in Britain.

A meeting of tho oxocutivo of tho Wellington and Wairarapa Charitable Aid Board was hold this morning, Mr. R. C. Kirk presiding. Messrs F. Cohen And A. Colos wore the other members present. It was reported that the various local bodies had all paid their levies by duo date, and that there was now a credit balance of £1853 15s lOd to the board's account. It was resolved to withhold payment of two accounts duo by the Board to Carterton Borough Council until that body supplies details that tno board had previously sought, and also roctifics an crjror in the latcat account rendered*