BRITAIN’S TRADE

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 August 1932, Page 2

BRITAIN’S TRADE

DECREASE IN JULY [by CABLE—PBESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] (Rec. August 13, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, August 12. The Board of Trade returns for July, compared with the corresponding period last year show that imports decreased by £18,236,000. Exports £4,957,000. Re-exports £1,631,000. '

The principal decreases in imports were meat £1,879,000, other food and drink £3,522,000, wood and timber £1,002,000, iron and steel and manufactures thereof £1,008,000, non-fer-rous metals £1,009,000, woollen and worsted yarns and manufactures £857,000, apparel £1,089,000. Exports: Vehicles £1,447,000.

INDUSTRIES FAIR.

[BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.]

RUGBY, August 12.

Invitations to 250,000 buyers in the United Kingdom and 500,000 buyers in 79 foreign countries will shortly be sent out for the British Industries Fair next February. The last Fair recorded a 4,000 increase in trade visitors, and each year the Fair increases in size and attraction.

A branch fair will again be held in Birmingham, including exhibits of the latest machinery for mining, quarrying, road-making, and street mending. Nearly a thousand firms have already booked space, and 90 per cent, of the flooi* accommodation has been allotted. There are 136 firms exhibiting furniture and 127 textiles. Numerous firms will exhibit leather and leather goods, sports goods, stationery, fancy goods, toys, games, jewellery, silver electroplate. RADIO PROGRESS. The Postmaster-General, Sir Kingsley Wood, speaking at the Savoy Hotel lunch, held fox* the forthcoming Radio Exhibition, to be staged at the Olympia, London, this month, commented on the remarkable growth of broadcasting in the United Kingdom. He said that four and a-half million people paid fox - wireless sets each year, and there was little doubt that the numbers would soon reach five million. Britain was leading the world in broadcasting, but the exploitation of wireless was only just beginning. The popularity of progress in the United Kingdom owed much to the British radio manufacturers, who had reason to be proud of the part they were playing in the development of broadcasting. x