BRITISH TRADE IN SOUTH AMERICA.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 16639, 7 August 1930, Page 9

BRITISH TRADE IN SOUTH AMERICA.

Interest In Trade Exhibition VISIT OF PRINCE OF WALES ARRANGED. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received August 6, 5.5 p.m.) RUGBY, August 5. Arrangements are in hand for the Prince of Wales to visit Argentina and Brazil in the spring next year. The main purpose of the visit is to enable the Prince to take part in the opening of the British Empire Trade Exhibition, which will be held at Buenos Aires for about six weeks, form March 14th. It is five years since the Prince, when homeward bound from South Africa, made a tour of the Argentine and other South American states. The Prince has since taken a keen interest in the development of trade relations with the Latin American countries, and following his visit an Anglo-South American Association was formed, to further this object. Another step to extend the British markets in South America was taken by appointment by the Board of Trade of an Economic Mission of industrialists, headed by Viscount d’Abernon, which recently visited the Argentine and Brazil. British manufacturers are displaying keen interest in next year’s exhibition, and application for space in the trade sections necessitated the provision of more than double the covered space originally designed. The grounds ana buildings cover more than twenty-five acres, but it will be difficult to accommodate all who wish to participate. Owing to the greatly increased importance now assumed by the exhibition, the British Government have decided to treble the sum to be expended on their official participation in the Exhibition, and a considerable part of the impressive British Government exhibits, now being shown in the Antwerp Exhibition, will be displayed at Buenos Aires.