"MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN."

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14401, 11 May 1917, Page 2

"MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN."

Strikfaa proof that many of the articles vthat hitherto have borne the familiar "Made lii Germany'- label can be; produced equally well in Great Britain w^s- afforded by the Industries' £air Jately_.organised in London by the JioardI of Trade,. Apart from the holding of %q fair the Board of Trade \ Department of Commercial Intelli- ■ genca has collected 9000 samples of bermau and Austrian goods fr6m abroad, which have been exhibited in various; large industrial centres in the United Kingdom and Canada. A library of over 7500 German and Austrian trade catalogues has also I)een made available for Inspection, while lists of manufactures in the United Kingdom have been compiled and classihed according to the goods thoy produce, v. The trades represented are: loys and games; earthenware, porcelain and china; glass and glassware; ™?fy goods stationery, and printing. With regard to glass, it may be noted oiat a firm of stained-glass wmdowntakors malces a feature of peace memorials. The toy section of the fair Miowed a great develope'cent, and was especially strong in moving animal toys.. A model, airplane which couia be down indoors or for a distance of half-a-miie was among the numerous novelties exhibited. Some seventy thousand invitations were issued to firms in the United Kingdom to attend the fan'