BRITISH GOODS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 17 December 1920, Page 8

BRITISH GOODS

OVERCOMING UNEMPLOYMENT

GOVERNMENT PREFERENCE

LONDON, Dec. 6. In the House of Commons, replying to Brigadier-General H. P. Croft (National Party), who urged that all State departments should be instructed to order only British goods as long as there was unemployment in Britain, Mr Lloyd George said that general instructions had been already enforced to give preference to products of the Empire in Government contracts. However, it was impossible to Tay down a universal rule, as certain foreign products must be purchased^ but the Government fully sympathised ( with the general tenor of the question. Replying to a suggestion that the interest of the taxpayer might be served by purchasing foreign goods, the Prime Minister was of the opinion that the interests of the taxpayer would be considered by seeing that they got employment, instead of unemployment, benefit.