BRITISH COMMONWEALTH LEAGUE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 452, 4 January 1934, Page 6

BRITISH COMMONWEALTH LEAGUE

London, Nov. 24. Each year the British Commonwealth League arranges a sale of Empire produce to augment its funds, the goods for sale being very largely gift. :. m High Commissioners’ departments, produce boards, and firms handling the produce. The league has for its main object tne securing of equality of liberties, status, and opportunities between men and women in the British Commonwealth of Nations. Sir Evelyn Wrench, founder of the Overseas League and of the EnglishSpeaking Union, opened the market. Pie said that on his travels in Europe he had noticed that in some countries the ideas in regard to the status of women were a relic of the past. There could be no advanced civilisation where women were not playing a great part in the State. Ke was convinced that some of the strange doctrines that were disturbing the world to-day could never have come to the front if the influence of women had been more strongly felt. Products were on sale from South A£-

ANNUAL SALE OF EMPIRE PRODUCE

NEW ZEALAND TAKES PART IN EXHIBITION

ricn. East Africa. New Zealand, Australia, Canada, India, Rhodesia, West ladies and Palestine. On the Now Zealand stand butter and honey were foi sale, as well as lamb.-.’ tongues, evaporated milk, tinned oysters, oyster soup and toheroa soup. It is only lately that Palestine 'as a British .mandated territory i has ta.am part in exhibitions of Empire produce, and it is interesting to notice me : a~ thusiasm of the Palestine ivr.v They are very proud of their C •*, while lemons and oranges arc ■ no.. , their largest exports. Then there i.s olive oil. So;;,. factories have also risen up in Palestine, the olive oil being largely used in the process, but the noted orange groves play an important part in the scenting of those soaps. Other produce various nuts, vermicelli, lockshen, fruit bon-bons, and cigarettes, while pottery which the country is exporting arc honey, made for 1000 years or more on the site of Pontius Pilate's house i.s now being sent abroad.