SHOPPING WEEK

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVi, 30 October 1925, Page 5

SHOPPING WEEK

HOME AND EMPIRE GOODS FOR MUTUAL IiF.LF (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) .q 4 »sil A A.-i uatlie AbeiuClLLllon.) LONDON, Oct. 29. Sir P. Cun I iff e Lister and Mr Melville Chamberlain circularised the lord may ors and mayors throughout I lie country mi consider whether limy can organise a local shopping week before Christmas, devoted to a display of Home ami Empire products, affording the people ari opportunity of helping trade and cm nloyment, in Britain while the purchase < f Empire goods will enable the Dominions and Colonies to buy more Irom i lie Mother Country. EDUCATIVE VALUE OF WEMBLEY LONDON, Oct. 30 The Duke of York presided at a dinner given by the Empire Exhibition Commissioner..- lor the dominions ami colonics to the Exhibition Board. Air Juwiic. Rawlings (Australia) in pro posing the toast of the Empire Exliibi tion. said lie Imped the Imperial Gov cniiner-t might he induced to maintain the ownership of Wembley to show the world what toe Empire meant. Air Amery dealt with the educative value of the exhibition. "It only we could grasp the vision of the development of the Empire clearly and strongly, then the possibilities ol our development and the, growth ard progressive welfare of all parts ot the Empire would be illimitable." The Duke of York responding, said the dominions, colonies, protectorates, and mandated territories had proved that little or nothing was not procurable within the Empire .