GLASGOW MARKETS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 74, 29 March 1932, Page 10

GLASGOW MARKETS

OPEN TO NEW: ZEALAND

APPEAL TO RETAILERS

Mr. Harold M. Ford, commercial manager of the' Clyde Navigation Trust, is making a determined effort to • "push" the sale' of New Zealand products in Scotland..] It will be recalled that the Lord Provost of Glasgow (Sir Thomas Kelly) formally opened the hatches of the direct Federal steamer Middlesex from New Zealand to Glasgow, and in doing so expressed the wish that "our friends in NewZealand should know that the citizens of Glasgow are behind the movement to popularise the products of'their rich and progressive country." Lord Home on the same occasion remarked, that "by giving a practical lead, the Clyde Trust is showing not only to our own people but to our Dominions thafcsthey are alive to their national and Empire responsibilities, not merely from the point of view of the port but for the-benefit of the markets, traders, and interests of Scotland, and for _ the great" producing interests of .the British people throughout the Empire." After the ceremonial reception of New Zealand produce in Glasgow, there followed tours of Glasgow and Edinburgh cities and their extensive suburbs oi a of decorated lorries, carrying New Zealand produce. Mr. Ford also made an appeal through :the "Scottish Grocer" to the whole of the retail trade of Scotland. He said that "by stocking, and stocking regu-larly,-Home and Empire ■ products, and, what is more, , sefeing • • tfaat his assistants offer them ; as]"" readily to the ~ housewife as for' years they have been accustomed .to tendering foreign goods,; the grocers of this country can make a real contribution towards promoting sales of Home and Empire goods. There is, too, another direction in which they.can function. How'many of the thousands of shops in Scotland consistently feature in their front -windows and display prominently before the housewife's eye as ehe enters the shop Home and Empire produce? A gradually increasing number, realising the trend .of public opinion/ arer certainly providing increased facilities in this direction, but a large percent-age'-of those who are even'beginning to stock Empire goods still elect to provide the goods of our foreign competitors with the most prominent and favoured^ positions in their windows and shops." _ To that percentage and to" the housewives, Mr.. Ford made a strong' appeal for New Zealand products. , ,