EMPIRE PRODUCE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 February 1925, Page 7

EMPIRE PRODUCE

STIMULATING INTEREST.

BRITISH SCHEMES

GROCERS’ SHOPPING WEEK

BY CABLE -CRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT

Received Feb. 18, 9.16 a.m. LONDON, Feb. 17

The Times states that arrangements are being made in various parts -of the country to stimulate interest in Empire products. The Grocers Association is planning u series of Empire shopping weeks, the objec t of the campaign being to supplement Wembley’s lesson by bringing home to all classes the Empire’s resources. —Times. PREIT CONTROL. EM PIH EORGANISATi ON FO R.M EJ). Received Feb. 18, 9.15 a.m. LONDON, Feb. 17. A scheme is maturing in London to form an Empire fruit corporation, to organise, more effective marketin'' and to°restrict foreign competition. It is learned from the provisional committee that representatives of the principa. Empire interests, including Australia and New Zealand, have already joined. The corporation will have fruit- consigned clLreet to its own warehouses, will make advances to growers, eliminating the brokers, and specula tors and effecting economies in distribution, but otherwise using ordinary trade channels .