ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14831, 24 November 1913, Page 3

ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES

FURTHERING IMPERIAL TRADE. (Fγ. jm otjp. own correspondent.) LONDON, October 17." The Hon. T. Mackenzie has been appointed by the President of the Board of Trade a member of the new Advisoi-y Committee to the Board of Trade on Commercial Intelligence. The committee holds office for three years, and advises generally on matters for the benefit of British trade. Other members of the committee include the leading industrial princes of the United Kingdom. POSTAGE-STAMP SALE. Messrs Glendining and Co., of Argyll street, have realised the following prices for two New Zealand stamps:— •One penny green rouletted of 1864. £2; id rose, 1873, £1 17s. NEW ZEALAND HELP FOR ' BELFAST. Mr R. Dawson Bates, writing from the Old Town Hall, Belfast, to the Belfast "News-Letter," says -.—"Colonel the Hon. H. E. Maxwell, D.5.0., Grand Secretary of -the Grand Orange Lodge- of Ireland, writes to mc that the Grand Lodge has received the following cable:—'Christchureh, New Zealand, Bth October, 1913.—Christchurch district wish Carson God-speed in coming struggle.—R. Roberts, district secretary. . Colonel Maxwell at the same time enclosed a cheque for £o7 ss, being a further contribution from the Orangemen of New Zealand . to the Carson fund." BRITISH EXPORTERS ASLEEP: A Dunedin firm calls the attention of his Majesty's Trade Commissioner for New Zealand (Mr W. S. Wickham) to the fact that United Kingdom exporters do not appear to pay sufficient attention to the New Zealand preferential tariff in the interest of their clients. In very many instances foreign goods have been received which might have been a fraction cheaper in the United Kingdom than British goods, but which were considerably more expensive to the New Zealand importer owing to the higher rates of duty which goods not of British produce or manufacture have to pay. SOUVENIR OF THE ANTARCTIC. The master and boys of the Tottenham Grammar School in 1910 purchased a sledgo for the use of the Scott Expedition, and attached a silver plate thereto indicating that it was a present from the school. .Mr J. T. Ophen, v the headmaster, has just received the plate from Mrs Wilson, widow of ,Dr. Edward A. Wilson, who was a member of tho expedition, with an accompanying letter, in which the writer says:—"On unpacking my husband's Antarctic things I found various plates belonging to sledges, etc., presented by schools. These plates were given into his charge, and were carefull v put away by him to be returned to the schools. I am therefore sending you the enclosed Tottenham Grammar School plate just as it was found, feefing sure that it will be much valued by tho boys. As far as I can make out, the boys' sledee was a man-hauled one used by tho Northern party." The plate is to be mounted, with a suitable inscription, and hung in the school.