EMPIRE DEVELOPMENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19163, 31 October 1925, Page 13

EMPIRE DEVELOPMENT.

VALUE OF THE EXHIBITION. MR. AMERY'S HIGH IDEALS. Renter. LONDON. Oct. 29. The Duke of York presided at a dinner which was given by the commissioners of the Empire Exhibition representing the Dominions and colonies to the members of the Exhibition Board. Mr. Justice Raw lings (Australia), in proposing the toast of the Empire Exhibition, said he hoped the British Government might be induced to maintain the ownership of Wembley and show the world what the Empire meant. The Secretary of State for the Dominions, Mr. L. C. M. S. Amery, dealt with the educative value of the exhibition. He said if only they could grasp the vision of developing the 'Empire clearly and strongly the possibilities of the development, growth and progressive welfare of all parts of the Empire would be illimitnV,l<»

The Duke of York, in responding, said the Dominions,* colonies, protectorates and mandated territories had proved that there was little or nothing which could not be produced within the Empire. GOODS FROM DOMINIONS. PROPOSED SHOPPING WEEK. A. and N.Z. LONDON. Oct. 29. The President of the Board of Trade, Sir Philip Cunliffe Lister, and the Minister for Health, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, have sent a circular to the Lord Mayors and Mayors throughout the country asking them to consider whether they can organise. a local shopping week before Christmas to be devoted to a display of home and Empire products. The object is to afford the people an opportunity of helping trade anrl employment in Britain. The circular states that the purchase of Empire goods will enable the Dominions and colonies to buy more from the Mother Country.