BRITISH INDUSTRIES FAIR

Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 69, 20 February 1931, Page 6

BRITISH INDUSTRIES FAIR

Oxe of the most important and interesting* events each year in the industrial life of Great Britain, is the British Industries Fail*. It is a mirror which reflects the progress in the widely distributed crunches of industry whose products are displayed to the many thousands who patronise the Fair, which takes rank as the world’s largest national trade exhibition. Coincident with this year’s Fair, which was opened on Monday arid will conclude on the 27 tn irist., are being held the Cotton Textile Exhibition and an Artificial Silk Show. In this “shop window” of Great Britain every class of trade and commerce is represented by a brilliant array of articles, each demonstrating* the skill and artistry, as well as the value in manufacture, in which the British workman takes pride. The Fail* will be to many people a revelation. Her _ Majesty the Queen, who visited the cotton exhibition on Monday, frankly expressed her astonishment that so many materials could be manufactured from cotton. Many others no doubt will express the same amazement, and as the primary object of the Fair is to stimulate trade between Britain and other countries it is evident that a . big effort is being made by British manufacturers to help overcome the trade -'epression. One hopeful aug-ury for the success is the record attendance of Home and overseas buyers which has been reported. New Zealand also gains from publicity at the exhibition. The Empre Marketing Board has displayed the Dominion’s products for which there is a “brisk sale of carton samples of goods.” Probably never before has there been such a need to stimulate trade. For this reason the result of the 1931 British Industries Fair will be watched with interest.