APPEAL TO HOUSEWIVES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23401, 18 July 1939, Page 3

APPEAL TO HOUSEWIVES

MR. JORDAN AT SHEFFIELD DISCRIMINATING BUYERS [FROM OTTR OWN corresponded] . LONDON, June 29 Sheffield housewives were asked by Mr. W. J. Jordan, High Commissioner for New Zealand, to use greater .discrimination when making their purchases. *;■: '; . Mr. Jordan was attending the presentation at the Grand Hotel, Sheffield, of prizes in the New Zealand lamb competitions this "week. He urged that, while Great Britain could not produce all the meat for the nation's requirements, much trade that could go to the Empire was going abroad. Not a penny spent in buying New Zealand lamb left Britain, he explained, as there was the huge debt amounting to about £12,000,000, which was paid by New Zealand annually. Another advantage that Britain gained by buying from New Zealand was in the increased trade it gave to shipping, all of New Zealand's exports to Britain being { carried' in British, vessels. The Lord Mayor of Sheffield, Alder- 1 man W. J. Hunter, presented the prizes. A total of 89 shops entered for the window-dressing competition, arid there were 40 in the decorated cyclo parade. Among those present was Mr. G. Oliver, president of the National Moat Retailers of Great Britain. i