WOLRD’S BIGGEST SHOPPES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 30 November 1933, Page 5

WOLRD’S BIGGEST SHOPPES

THE BRITISH HOUSEWIFE ‘•Tin* British housewife is the greatest iniemut.ionai shopper. This declaration was made by Major Waller Elliol., Minister of Agriculture, whan he adressed ten thousand women from all parts of England and Waleat the annual “Country Womens I’arlia inenl"— the annual general meet mg of ilie National Federation ot Womens Institutes wliieh. representing a membersliip of nearly dOll.ODI). is one ol the largest organised bodies of women in the world. Major Elliot appealed to tin- delegates to study thoroughly the various agrieultural schemes put forward bv the Government. “When the British housewife puts her purse on the counter all the world creeps up,’’ lie said. “In her basket she carries 96 per cent, of the world's bacon exports and !)-l per cent of the world's export of lamb. "She also carries half the world’s sheep and eight out of every ten ounces of butter sent abroad by the countries of the world. “Do you realise that the dairy industry at this moment is employing twice as many as the whole woollen industry in this country, twice as many as the iron and steel industry, and between three and four times the number of people as the whole -shipbuilding industry of Great Britain?" The Government was attempting to deal with the question of agriculture product by product. 'The various schemes were vital to the countryside ami it, was equally vital that they should he understood.