BRITAIN’S TRADE

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 September 1933, Page 5

BRITAIN’S TRADE

ORDERS FROM ABROAD FINLAND’S FRIENDLY GESTURE [BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.] RUGBY, September 2. During the last two months, the London Chamber of Commerce has received a steadily increasing number of trade enquiries, mostly from oversea. These ,have been 30 per cent, higher than in the corresponding period of last year. These enquiries, a high proportion of which have resulted in orders, have come from most countries in Europe and also from the United States, and cover a -wide range of goods. The Prince of Wales, with President Svinhufvud, the Joint Patron of the “British Week” in Finland, which begins on Monday, has sent good wishes to the enterprise. The Prince says: “This generous gesture .of friendship by Finland is appreciated by the British people.” The President of Finland expresses the belief that it will greatly increase the possibilities of successful. trade development between the two countries. ■

The suggestion for the British Week in Finland.was made from the Finnish side last Spring, during the visit to Helsingfors of a United Kingdom trade mission. It was -warmly taken up, and has had full support from the Governments of both countries.

1 ELECTRICITY SUPPLIES.

LONDON, September 3.

The £27,000,000 grid scheme—completed after five and a-half years’ work, brings electricity to the doorsteps of practically every village in England, Wales and Southern Scotland. The final adjustments in the heavy transmission lines are being made in the New Forest, to-morrow, where, the last of the 26,250 pylons have just been erected. The work has given employment to 200,000 men. MORE IN EMPLOYMENT. (Received September 5, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, September 4. There were 9,857,000 employed in Britain on August 21, or 57,000 more than in July, and 648,000 in excess of 1932. The improvement continued in the iron, steel, engineering, shipbuilding, electrical, woollen, hosiery, shipping, hotel, coal-mining and building trades, whereas- the tailoring, boot, and pottery trades declined.

The total of entirely unemployed was 1,843,517, temporarily 483,432, and casually employed 84,188.

MILK POOL FAVOURED.

LONDON, August 4'

The dairy farmers of Britain by an overwhelming majority voted in favour of a scheme for a national regional milk pool covering the supply contracts of a hundred and fifty thousand farmers owning three million cows. It is expected that Mr J. H. Maggs, managing director of the United. Dairies, Ltd., will have the supreme control of the scheme, under Major Elliott, fMinister of Agriculture. BARTER WITH CANADA RUGBY, September 4. A barter scheme, which is the direct result of the Ottawa Conference, has been arranged between two large manufacturing firms, one in England and the other in Canada, whereby British cream separators are to be exchanged for Canadian ploughs.