“HELP KITH AND KIN.”

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 15 March 1926, Page 9

“HELP KITH AND KIN.”

EMPIRE MARKETS SLOGAN.

SUBSIDY TO HOME AS WELL AS OVERSEAS PRODUCTS. LONDON, Feb. 3. British Ministers, under the pressure of British agricultural interests, have decided that British home as well as Dominion produce must be included in the scheme for . promoting marketing here of Empire produce. The Chancellor, Mr Winston Churchill, will provide the promised £1,000.000 in liis forthcoming budget.

This decision to include British home products is a departure from the original intentions, which was confined to produce from the Empire overseas, which competes here with the American, Danish and other foreign produce such as cheese, butter, and fruit. Thereupon British agricultural spokesmen in Parliament asked sarcastically when Great Britain had ceased to be a part of the Empire. A subsidy was, however, granted, as equivalent to Canada and other Dominions, for preference on. Canadian apples, tinned salmon, etc., which the Imperial economic conference recommended but which the Baldwin clod ion pledges ruled out. Sir Halford -Mackinder's Imperial, shipping committee lias submitted detailed plans for spending this £1,000,000 on advertising, and generally recommending Empire produce to the British housewife. These plans now become operative with the co-operation of the Canadian and other Dominions' representatives upon the committee'.

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A question is raised unofficially, whether this subsidy can properly be used to assist non-Empire means of trails port—whether, for instance, the Canadian apportionment should not be restricted to direct shipment from Canada ports. Another decision of the British Government affecting Canadian business is that their Parliament be asked this session to pass a merchandise marks Bill which would compel the labelling of foreign imports to distinguish them from. British and Empire goods. It is believed that this measure will prevent what illicit sales take place of American and other foreign produce as of Empire origin. “Help your own kith and kin,” is a new slogan, of which the latest illustrations are one British railway company’s orders for British Columbia timber and New Zealand’s order for Nova Scotia steel.