BRITISH TRADE

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 22, 26 July 1927, Page 9

BRITISH TRADE

NEED FOR SELLING AGENCY

(United Press Association.—Copyright.)

(Received 26th July, noon.)

LONDON, 25th July. In the House of Commons, during the Board of Trade debate, Sir Eobert Home emphasised that but for Dominion and colonial trade the t existing economic position of Britain would bo infinitely worse, and tho balance- of trade worse than it had been at any previous time.

Mr. Lloyd George, Leader of the Liberal Party, urged the necessity for British merchants having good agents in the Dominions. "We lost heavily," he said, "in the sale of motors because during the war the best agents were captured by America." Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, President of the Board of Trade, said British manufacturers must hunt out buyers. "If firms," he said, "cannot afford individual selling agents abroad, they should combine and form a British selling agency. A combination for representation abroad must be good business."