BRITISH INDUSTRIES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 22 February 1928, Page 5

BRITISH INDUSTRIES.

ATTRACTIVE DISPLAY OF EXHIBITS. IV CAHI.K HKKSM '■ICI'IIIM -roi’VHlllHl LONDON, Feb. 21. The Industries banquet was a representative gathering of ambassadors, high commissioners, agents-general am. traders’ organisations. Sir James Parr, High Commissioner or New Zealand, was present. The Prince of Wales sent a message stating he was hopeful that the augury ,r tiie record exhibits coincided with the dawn of a- new era in British trade at home and abroad. Sir P. Ounliffe-Lister. president ol .he Board of Trade, the chairman, said buyers from 70 countries were attending the fair.

Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, expressed the opinion that the fair, was a marvellous example of tinrecuperative powers of British industry, disproving the foolish allegation that the country was decrepit. It was realised that trade was becoming one of the great factors of world peace. The Rt. Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery, Secretary for the Dominions, expressed the opinion that the fair was 'a tribute bo the efficiency of British industries. It synchronised with the growth of efficiency and production throughout :he Empire, thus providing the best basis for the growth of trade interrelations.

The High, Commissioner, Sir Jamc-s Parr, received the Duke of York at the New Zealand hall in the British industries exhibition. The stall attractively features, butter, cheese, honey, wool, mutton and lamb, and earned eneoniurns from the Duke, who drew attention to the transparent picture of the interior of a creamery and noted its resemblance o one he visited between Auckland and Rotorua. He congratulated Sir James Parr on the maintenance of the popularity of the Dominion’s chief exports a Great Britain.