EMRIRE INDUSTRIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 926, 20 September 1910, Page 5

EMRIRE INDUSTRIES.

-■'-. ———*- r—, . y' ■■;-. . proposed exhibition; ; X By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. . ■ '■: (Rec.' September 19, 11.5.p.m.) London,,. September-19.':' The Union Jack Industries' League -proposes to form a ; guarantee fund of • half■ a million sterling for: an exhibition, in 1915, .displaying the.'- agricultural -and manufacturing capabilities of . the Empire, each Dominion erecting its own building.' '• . .~' t -"- , ' '-,; :■:'■■']' THE LEAGUE'S OBJECTS.N'-'i-;' At a meeting held in London recently by the Union Jack Industries League, Mr. Herbert Nield,.'M.P,,- tuoyed a reso- . lution accepting l the 1 policy of the league,and appealing! to'all-British'subjects to .assist in supporting and extending the interests of the Empire; by .purchasing goods made within-the. Empire, ', having due regard to.. the quality' and price, in preference to_ goods, of _.- foreign'. origin wherever possible.. -He said we had fallen on evil days, when it .was necessary to have a;. crusade' 1 of this kind; It'seemed to him astonishing that'people .should be, so indifferent as to the source of the goods which they: purchased'. .Miss Alice Sandford .seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously.' •'. '-O'