TRADE IN EMPIRE.
ESSAYS FOR SCHOOLBOYS,
DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE PRIZE.
The subject selected this year for the compelition for the " Duke of Devonshire Prize " is:
" The Dominions and Crown Colonies spend nearly £500,000,000 per annum in buying goods from foreign countries. Your views are requested as to what nre the best means of improving upon this condition of affairs so that more of the business done by the Dominions and Crown Colonies with foreign countries may be diverted to Britain and the rest of the British Empire, thus developing inter-Ira-perial trade." The competition is open to boys of all the leading public schools throughout Britain, and three prizes, of 20, 10, and five guineas respectively, are awarded by the British Empire League for the beat essavs.
'l'lio prize was established in 1909 in memory of Spencer Compton, eighth Pnka of Devonshire, first president of the British Empire Lracnsc.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20621, 21 July 1930, Page 6
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