THE PAN-BRITISH EXHIBITION.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14886, 28 January 1914, Page 10

THE PAN-BRITISH EXHIBITION.

TO CELEBRATE 1915. AN APPEAL TO THE DOMINIONS* (FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, December 19. 2 There will bs many who will view with misgivings tne determination o! " tho promoters to hold the British Do-' ' minions Exhibition of 1915' at the ,- Crystal Palace, but thero will not be . many who will not heartily endorse ' r% "; r the exhibition project itself. There is no need to recapitulate the v ;_ many memories and anniversaries. ' which tho exhibition is .intended to «•• perj>etuato—the 700 th anniversary of I Magna Charta, the centenary of Water- -' 100, and peace with America, ' the 'J , majority of tho Prince of "Wales, the : next Imperial Conference, and so on. Sir Pieter Stewart-Bam, the original /■>' tor of the idea, explained that the use - of the Crystal Palaco was intended-to s commemorate the early interest of „ Prince Albert in international exhibiV- ' tions. He said — • - i - "Tho exhibition,- in which it -is - I stipulated that every exhibit shall;lie :<. a manufacture or product of some part- 7 "' of the Empire will, it is hoped, focus, ;. attention on the future of trade" and t-$ commerce within the Empire 1 by meaaa It of conferences, and • both will, wo belie,ve, roceivje a groat impetus from a?,"::; display in friendly competition:the concourse of peoplo drawn to MetropoLis of tho Empire in" 1915,' theil,£vC ■will be a -unique opportunity for re- f viewing, our Imperial blessings and Imperial responsibilities." .-.'t^-f ■Lord Southwark offered the whole*/-; hearted support of the .London Chela? <i ber of Commerce, of which ho is--preeJ~.> dent. ~ ~ "- The Hon. T. Mackenzie said that w ">- ---thought tho British manufacturer.W'rj before him the keenest competitaoav; , which has ever engaged m's attention.* ~ Apart from tho evidence of tJieMB" ;. eventration and specialisation promoted,-, by, the Germans "and Americans, tae policy now pursued by,-the United, : States of lowering in many-instances her tariff, and in other instances of •,. taking off tho duty altogether. «®cnr. rent with the opening of the-Panama. „- Canal, will change the channels-;end currents of commerce to an '*?**?* . which even the mobt ' hardly..detenniie. In an he read recently, a scale of dietenwe was.worked out, indicating how mudk nearer certain peoples would> brought by that highway to Britain, •>»*.;£ should not be overlooked that, wlute „ it lessens the distance of *»ese pla«e i> to Britain, it gives to'tho States of America over the counfnee -„ bordering on the Pacific an eno«g> advantage compared to that ;™£?\-V Britain would secure. T^/W V cans had barred Australian -and Wα. Zealand products from entering ttafg. country by reason of the high but that tariff is now lessened or moved, and that will mean £*£&■ ing of a return cargo to euch veMg^ country, and she is now on the .Iμ*... of food importing countries. Regarding the exhibition itself, a". , Mackenzie said ho was not in a tion to say what the Governm ent « Now Zealand would do. He, M». , ever, felt that, if conducted on W£. - per lines, tho exhibition should enable ... the over&eas people to. present t&tfr manufactured articles m suchi**"* -. as would secure a better aPP"*** 1 * distribution and consumption of igj - which they produced. Tlie London Chamber of Commerce should 'Oβ • thanked for. the great thgr. had shown in establishing tnennju X conferences in different part. ' o , world. The work done by the r mercial li,tolli K enco Branch Board of Trade must also be ««g? . ledced. Its enterprising Trade Cp* Sioners in different BWjjrf ».; world had euppUed most valuabte formation, which merchants slow to appreciate, ar.d as an inge*; , tion of thVßood work .t *«*gS '- ho might mention that that Wg*g .. ment Replied to no fewei-tton 16.0W.^ were in the womb of f utu , nt^ nrrtnra i 5-' Other representatives «P ok « e "fS l ~ regarding the prospects of a«Br from the other Dominions, g Mackenzie has become a vice-presiden* _ of the exhibition.