EMPIRE TRADE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2494, 22 June 1915, Page 2

EMPIRE TRADE

i LONDON INFORMATION EXCHANGE FOR BUSINESS MEN. The Empire Trade and Industry Committee of the Royal Colonial Institute .has, during the past four years, done considerable service towards the corelation of the trade of the various parts of the Empire. In connection with the war, several ne,w services have been inaugurated, and it may be of interest to quote some of those -which are specially aimed at being of uso to persons overseas. The committee undertakes :— (1) To bring before the notice of persons in the United Kingdom likely interested any British product which is characteristic of or peculiar to any one of the British possessions. (2) To introduce the raw materials of tho Empire to manufacturers. (3) To find for buyers overseas British manufacturers to inako goods formerly obtained from Germany and Austria. In some cases tho committee has induced British firms to take up tho manufacture of goods formerly not mado at all within the Empire. (4) To bring the names of persons abroad desiring agencies before British manufacturers. (o) Generally to take an active part in any movement which has for'its object tho improvement of commercial relations between tho constituent parts of tho British Empire._ The committee will be glad to hear from any persons who may be interested in any of the above matters and to place the many and varied resources of the committee at their disposal. _ As the object of the committee is to stimulate in every way British trade from a patriotic there is, of course, no fee in connection with this work. Inquiries may be addressed to the Empire Trade Committee, Royal Colonial Institute, London, W.C.