BRITISH INDUSTRIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20338, 21 February 1928, Page 9

BRITISH INDUSTRIES

FOURTEENTH ANNUAL FAIR. BUYERS FROM SIXTY COUNTRIES (British Official Wireless.) (Press Association—By telegraph—Copyright.) RUGBY, February 18. (Received Feb. 20, at 6.5 j>.m.) The fourteenth British industrial fair at White City, London, and Castle Bromwich Birmingham, which continues until March 2, will be by far the largest trade display ever held hi Britain, 2000 British manufacturers having displayed their best and newest products along 13 miles of stands. Their customers, including trade buyers from over 60 countries, are arriving in London and Birmingham by every train. London hotels this week-end are thronged with overseas buyers. One hotel has guests of 17 nationalities, and in another there are 50 buyers, a large proportion of whom are Germans. Other hotels have visitors from Austria, Sweden, Holland, Germany, Siam, and America. Visitors have come from as far afield as Seychelles. Tiie annual fair is being increasingly used by manufacturers for launching entirely iiew products on the world’s markets.

Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister (president of the Board of Trade) presides at the Government’s banquet to leading exhibitors and buyers at Mansion House to-morrow night, with the Duke of York as the chief guest. In the afternoon the Duke and Duchess of York will visit White City, while on Thursday the King and Queen will visit Birmingham and later probably White City.