"BUY EMPIRE GOODS"

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 50, 27 August 1925, Page 12

"BUY EMPIRE GOODS"

A PATRIOTIC SLOGAN

SIR H. BRITTAIN ON TRADE

DEVELOPMENT.

A word concerning trade within the Empire was uttered by Sir Harry Brittain, M.P., in the course of his speech at the Press dinner last night.

"In commerce,'-' he said, your output per capita beats the world, and we from the Old Country particularly appreciate what New Zealand trade means to us. We know that your small population takes from us as much as do the teeming millions of China, and as much and more than do many of the greatest trading nations in either Hemisphere. That trade we must on both sides endeavour to develop by every means in our power, and do all we can to encourage trade between yourselves, and any other section under the Union Jack. "On Empire Day a luncheon was given in the. House of' Commons, at j which every item was produced in the j Empire, and I need hardly say that tho : New Zealand production of apples, ' Jamb, cheese, and butter proved second j to none. But why not try to make: every day an Empire Day—(hear, hear) ' —and see to it that as far as : posible nothing be bought or; consumed within the Empire unless i it be produced by the citizens of the • Empire. (Hear, hear.) We can do it; i we hare the goods; we hare the en- ; ergy, and an Empire Press/ working in ■ unison, would be a mighty instrument j in the achievement of that realisation. - "In every conceivable way in which we can do so let us drive home the; slogan, 'Buy Empire goods.' "