EMPIRE EXHIBITION

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160797, 3 November 1920, Page 3

EMPIRE EXHIBITION

LONDON, Nov. 2. In the House of Commons, Mr Kelleway, in moving the second reading of the Empire Exhibition Bill, guaranteeing ;£IOO,OOO subject to private guarantee of half a million being forthcoming, stated that the idea was to demonstrate the Empire’s natural resources. It was a regrettable fact that pre-war British trade with the Dominions was diminishing. There had been improvement since the armistice, hut there were great possibilities for future improvements. He believed the exhibition would assist without raising a fiscal controversy. The motion was carried by 205 to 30.