EMPIRE TRADE
PLEA FOR DEVELOPMENT
(From "The Post's" Represontative,) LONDON, 18th May.
Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister (president of the Board of Trade), inaugurating an Empire Shopping Week at Nottingham, struck a high note of optimism for British trade.
"I am tired of those who decry their own country and are always ready to uphold anything except their own interests," he said. ""Wo stand preeminent to-day in .the development of markets all over the world." At tho same time British trade needs all tho encouragement we can give it. In tho first quarter of this year our imports were 30 per cent, more than before the war, while we were exporting upon not much more than three-quarters of tho pre-war scale. That is not good enough for a great industrial country like this. "Let us in our daily lives help4(our own markets and assist in building up overseas trade. Already the overseas markets absorb 45 per cent, of British manufactures. In New Zealand £16 per head of the population was spent upon British goods. Mutual trade within the Empire can be encouraged by all to the disadvantage of foreign competitors, and I am convinced that Empire shopping weeks will largely contribute towards that end by concentrating attention upon the great opportunities for trading abroad.'?
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 143, 21 June 1927, Page 4
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212EMPIRE TRADE Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 143, 21 June 1927, Page 4
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