BRITISH INDUSTRIES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 144, 7 March 1918, Page 5

BRITISH INDUSTRIES

DEVELOPMENTS DURING THE WAR

INCREASED PRODUCTION

London, March 5. The "Daily Telegraph," in an article oil the development of industry as an indirect result of the war, says:— "Since the outbreak of hostilities and the limitation of opportunities for transport, many hundreds of thousands of pounds have been invested, and manufacturing establishments are rapidly springing up. An earnest effort is being made to make the country more self-supporting in the days of oommercial stress tnat have been forecasted when the blood-lust of Germany has been quelled." The "Telegraph ' enumerates numbers of instances of firms spending large sums to increase production. One firm spent £280,000, with an additional' £50,000 to follow. The paper declared that fifty new industries could be written down offhaud. —Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.

EXHIBITION OF SAMPLES' IN LONDON

OBJECT LESSONS FOR MANUFACTURERS.

London, March 5. The Foreign Samples Department of Overseas Trade has opened an exhibition in London. Over 15,000 samples _ of enemy goods have been collected since the war, the object being to show the British manufacturers the exact nature of enemy trade in various parts of the •Empire and other countries. The Department lias secured a. vast quantity of valuable information relative to enemy trade. The markets represented by the samples include practically. every part of the Empire, besides North America, China, and Siam. Other countries are to be added. The manufacturers are allowed everv facility to study the ex-hibits.—Aus.-N'.Z. Cable Assn.