PROPOSED EXHIBITION.

Otago Witness, Issue 3513, 12 July 1921, Page 13

PROPOSED EXHIBITION.

LONDON, July 6." Tlie British Trade Ship, Ltd. (newly registered) proposes to build a special ship to serve as a floating exhibition of British manufactures. She will make a world trip, displaying goods to foreign and Dominion buyers. The Duke °ol Northumberland, Earl Grey, Sir George Beaumont, Sir Alfred Pease, and Messrs Swan, Hunter, Wigram, and Richardson are directors. July 8. At the luncheon given to the overseas Prime Ministers by the Empire Exhibition Committee, a largo number of business men were present. Air Alassey said that such an exhibition as was proposed at the end of the reconstruction period was worthy of the support of every jvart of the Empire to snow wliat the countries of the Empire were capable of. When he said the countries of the Empire he included aiso the 49. Crown colonies and dependencies, some of which comparatively soon would be endowed with the dignity of dominion status. It was urgently necessary that the Empire should show,' not only to the rest of the world, but to its own manufacturers what it could do, and what its resources were. NowZealand would do what it never failed to do—namely, its duty. He took the opportunity of again referring to the necessity for faster shipping, lower cable rates, and reduced freights.