BRITISH GOODS

Evening Star, Issue 19221, 12 April 1926, Page 4

BRITISH GOODS

BUY, OH BUY! APPEAL BY BOARD OF TRADE The latest copy of tho Fiji ‘Royal Gazette ’ to come to hand includes a circular containing a message front tho British Board of Trade and Ministry of Health to the people of Britain, forwarded to the Fiji Government _by the of State for the Colonies. It deals wult the live question of Empire trading, and runs as follows• “All in tho country are anxious_to do what lies within their power to improve British trade and to help employment. It will be generally agreed that there is an obvious way in which the men and women of this country can help individually. By buying British goods they will stimulate production, give employment, and by enlarging the output of our factories enable them to produce more cheaply and compete more effectively. By increasing their purchase of British goods in the Home market they will reduce the trade balance, thereby enabling this country to invest more in tho development of now' markets. By increasing the purchase of Empire goods in the Homo market they will enable the countries of the British E>, piro to buy more from the Mother Co miry. Every man and woman in Britain can help in these ways. Every purchase helps; and if all join in a common effort the stimulous to British trade, Home and Imperial, will bo great and immediate.

“In many quarters people have already shown that they appreciate tho need and the possibility, but there can be no doubt that a national movement to help British trade by luynig British goods, will be greatly quickened if a suitable occasion is taken which will focus attention at once upon the needs and tho opportunity for meeting it,”