"BUY BRITISH GOODS."

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19761, 12 April 1926, Page 10

"BUY BRITISH GOODS."

A MESSAGE TO THE COLONIES. BOARD OF TRADE APPEAL. An interesting message from the British Board of Trade and Ministry of Health to the oeople of Britain which was forwarded by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Fijian Government is included in the latent copy of the Fiji Royal Gazette. This was received at the Fiji Court on Saturday by the Hon. R. Boyd, Commissioner for Fiji. It is printed in the Gazette as a circular, and is as follows: — “All in the country are anxious to do what lies within their power to improve British trade and to help employment. It will be generally agreed that there is an obvious way in which the men and women of this country can help individually. By buying British goods they will stimulate production, give employment, and by enlarging the output of our factories, enable them to produce more cheaply, and compete more effectively. By increasing their purchase of British goods in the Home market, they will reduce the volume of foreign imports and improve the trade balance, thereoy enabling this country to invest more in the development of new markets. By increasing the purchase of Empire goods in the Home market they will enable the countries of the British Empire to buy more from the Mother Country. Every man woman in Britain can help in these ways*. Every purchase helps; and if all join in a common effort, the stimulous to British trade, Home and Imperial, will be great and immediate. “In many quarters people have already shown that they appreciate the need and the possibility, but there can be no doubt that a national movement to help British trade by buying British goods will be greatly quickened, if a suitable occasion is taken which will focus attention at one upon the needs and the opportunity for meeting it.” THE HIGHLANDERS’ BAND. SATURDAY’S PROGRAMMES. Although rain; threatened as the band of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders was about" to commence the afternoon proogramms oa Saturday the concert was

given in the band stand of the Grand Court, and, fortunately, the weather remained fine and mild. The audience was again a very large one, completely filling "the central portion of the court. and in the evening the band again proved itself the outstanding Exhibition attraction. In the afternoon Lance-corporal C. JSpaughton again acted as conductor, his work being reflected in the excellent playing of the Highland musicians. In the evening the bandmaster (Mr F. J. Ricketts) once more held the baton, and, under his masterly direction, the band essayed a difficult programme with brilliant success. The first concert of the day opened with the overture “ Saul,” which _ was played instead of the scheduled item. Then followed the selection from “Migjr.on ” (Ambroise Thomas). “Mignon is the seventeenth and most successtul of its composer’s operatic works. Its libretto, based, as the title indicates, on Gothe’s famous novel, “ Wilhelm Meister,” was written by Messrs Carre and Barbier.ywho also adapted the same poet’s “ Faust ” for Gounod. “ Mignon was produced at the Paris ' Opera Comique in 1866, and was being performed when that theatre w,as burned down in 1877. Selections by the pipers and Highland dancing by members of the band filled the middle of the programme, and two pieces—“ The Clock Is Playing and the inarch “Colonel Bogey” was given by the band, together with an excellent selection of light number^. In the evening the concert opened with “ Orpheus In the Underworld ” (Offenbach). After the popular Highland lament “Coronach,” which owes its inclusion in the repertoire of the band to the interest taken by the chairman of Exhibition directors (Mr J. Sutherland Ross), the selection from “ I Paghacci was played in inimitable fashion. A Scottish suite by the combined pipes and band, the selection “ Reminiscences of Scotland’ and the ever-popular ‘Musical Switch” were other outstanding items on a programme of special merit.