BRITISH MANUFACTURERS.
A TRAVELLING EXHIBITION
By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Australian-New Zealand Cable iia.-«joianoL - LONDON, Jan. 2.
Mr Robb, the Secretary of the Department of Overseas Trade, in an interview, said that the Treasury had sanctioned expenditure on a scheme under which a travelling exhibition of British, manufactures..js to be held in the principal commercial centres of South Africa, Australasia, Canada, and possibly the Far East. This exhibition is designed to attract the Dominions’ buyers with a minimum of expense and inconvenience to them. It will stay in each centre about six weeks, the tour to last two years. He also referred to the measures taken to develop British commerce amongst' foreign nations, and said the Gorman Government already realised the success of the British Industries Fair held last year,, and had granted a substantial subsidy to light it.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1715, 5 January 1920, Page 3
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