IMPERIAL TRADE RELATIONS

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14140, 10 June 1920, Page 5

IMPERIAL TRADE RELATIONS

PROPOSED EXHIBITION. Press Association —Electric Telegraph—. Copyright (Reuter's Telegrams.) (Received Thursday, 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, Wednesday. The Lord Mayor presided at a large •meeting at the Mansion House in connection with Imperial trade relations, and the coming British trade exhibition. He read a letter from the Prince of Wales, president of the general committee, stating that the Government had decided to introduce a Bill providing for a grant of £.100,000 to the exhibition guarantee fund, conditionally on at least £500,000 being otherwise guaranteed. The Prince hoped that atU least £1,000,000 would be guaranteed. Lord. Milner urged that the c&fttbi-": tion must be oil a vast scale befitting the Empire, and thoroughly characteristic of the resources of the He emphasised that the “exhibition* would have a social and national, as well as an economic, value, and make for the interdependence of. various parts of the Commonwealth, Sir George. iPorlev ..(High Commissioner for Canada), promised.the hearty support of Canada. Mr W. A. Watt (treasurer of the Australian Commonwealth') moved a resolution cordially endorsing the proposal to hold an exhibition in London during 1923.

Sir Robert Horne said' that the Board of Trade and other Government departments were ■ determined to give the exhibition' every support in their power. He emphasised the- necessity of in every way developing markets for British products. The resolution was carried'witl,lftwo, dissentients. •• -* /o.'il