BRITISH INDUSTRIES FAIR

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 February 1930, Page 9

BRITISH INDUSTRIES FAIR

A GREAT DSPLAY. (Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 15. Thousands of prospective customers are reaching England this week-end for the British Industries’ Fair, two sections of which, one at Olympia, London, and the other at Castle Bromwich, Birmingham, open on Monday. The fair is the greatest trade exhibition the world has ever seen, and personal • invitations have been sent to 200,000 trade buyers in sixty countries. The fair has grown steadily in size since its inception. This year it is larger and more comprehensive than ever before, and is by far the largest trade exhibition in the world. For - the first time, the London Exhibition is held in the speciallyequipped Olympia, which offers greater comfort and accommodation than did White City, used in previous years. The place of honour in the Main Hall is given to a huge exhibit of the Empire Marketing Board, which displays not only the products of the Home Country, but of the Dominions, India and the Colonies. Olympia is otherwise devoted to “light industries,” such as clothing, and display, which offers goods to suit everybody from the bathing belle to an Arctic explorer, pottery . and glass, photographic equipment, sports goods and scores of other products. At Birmingham, where the heavy section of the fair is held, the exhibits have increased until there are eight miles of shop windows, and four miles of gangways with stands on either side, all. arranged in sections to facilitate the inspection of goods in. which visitors have a special interest. The hardware and brass foundry sections have in particular developed this year. The whole fair' illustrates the immense ■ scope of British industry as well as the vigorous commercial enterprise now being displayed by it. TRADE AND DIPLOMATS.

(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 17. Mr A. Henderson, in reply to a question that while British diplomatic representatives were at all times prepared to give all proper support to the efforts of British exporters to secure contracts and orders abroad, the Foreign Office was considering the advisability of strengthening the commercial side of the diplomatic staff. He added that when diplomatic representatives came home and called at the Foreign Office, he had made it his business to impress upon them that they should, give all possible attention to the matter of increasing British trade abroad.