A DISTINGUISHED VISITOR.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 1 February 1927, Page 4

A DISTINGUISHED VISITOR.

ADDRESS BY SIR THOMAS ALLEN TO-NIGHT. Sir Thomas Allen, who is touring New Zealand as a representative of one of the big business interests of England, will give a public address in the Winter Show buildings in Hawera tins evening. It is expected that there will be a large attendance of the public, for the visitor will have much to say which will be of interest to the farming, as well as to the commercial community. Sir Thomas Allen is a director of the Co-operative Wholesale Society of Great Britain, a trading organisation with a huge annual turnover, and he is recognised as an authority on trado matters. He was a member of the Imperial Economic Committee apopinted in 1922, and was a member of the Imperial Committee which presented a report last year dealing with the .marketing of foodstuffs produced within the Empire. He has a thorough grasp of the economic questions facing Great Britain at the present time, beingj closely connected with the coal-mining industry, and the opportunity to hear him speak this evening is certain to be seized by a large number of Hawera residents. Tonight’s me'eting has been arranged by the Federation of Co-operative DairyCompanies, the Hawera Chamber of Commerce, and the Hawera Rotary Club.