MARKETING EMPIRE PRODUCE

Evening Star, Issue 18884, 7 March 1925, Page 4

MARKETING EMPIRE PRODUCE

BALDWIN' KEEPS PROMISE. IMPERIAL COMMITTEE TO INQUIRE. Prats Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, March 6. (Received March 7, at 10.25 a.m.) The Colonial Office notifies tho formation of an ad hoc Imperial Economic Committee foreshadowed by Mr Stanley Baldwin in December. It will be presided over bv Sir Halfard Mackinder (chairman of the Imperial Shipping Committee, director of the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Senator of Loudon University, also former High Commissioner in South Russia) to deal with the marketing of Empire products in Britain and to make recommendations regarding tho disbursement of the British Government’s grant of £1,000,000 to foster .Imperial trade. The committee will first concentrate its attention on meat and fruit from the dominions. The Indian representatives will be chosen from their respective representatives in London. Sir Gilbert Grindle, together with another so far not elected, ■will represent the colonies. Sir Mark Sheldon, chairman of the Australian Bank of Commerce, and Mr Milonga 11 will represent Australia. Sir James Allen and Mr Robert Forsyth (the New Zealand Meat Board’s London manager) will represent New Zealand. —Ruter.