CAMPAIGN AGAINST GERMAN TRADE

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 May 1916, Page 3

CAMPAIGN AGAINST GERMAN TRADE

COLLECTION OF GERMAN CATALOGUES. In connection with the campaign against German trade which was initiated by the Board oi Trade in England in the c*u-.iy days of the .var, much good wor£"~"iVS» oeefi done in bringing to the notice ot British hrnw the nature of the goods made by German tirira which were most successful in securing trade m ttome, colonial and foreign markets. in the early stages of the war it was possible to oollect and exhibit for the inspection of British firms the actual goodn themselves. and this was rapidly done by the Board of Trade, trade by trad©, until the time came when it was no longer possible to find sufficient ranges of samples to make such exhibitions possible. It was then decided make a collection of German catalogues and to form a reference library of such catalogues fair the benefit ot those British firms who were desirous of placing on ibhe market goods ffc' competition with German goods which had previously been in demand. The Board of Trade has mow collected over 3000 of these catalogues, and that j the collection has been appreciated by British manufacturers is provedi by the fact that applications for one or more of them are being received at the rate of 1000 per month. The Board of Trade is. however, anxious to secure es complete a list of catalogues as possible. His Majesty's lVade Commissioner in New Zealand is therefore desirous of forwarding such German catalogues a* may be procurable on this market. Hiis Majesty's Trade Commissioner would,..be gladi to have "the co-opeTation of trades in New Zealand, and would ioe glad to receive auy catalogues which they may be able to let him have so that they may be sent to London for the purpose indicated. viz., the a-ssietaaee of British linns to take advantage of the present opportunity to replace German y;oods by British on the markets of the , Empire. «

The following ie a list of gpoda for which catalogues are more especially desired Clothing, hosiery, boots and shoes (manufacturers' catalogues not merchants of those required); filters; domestic brushes and brooms; disinfectants ; educational models; woven fabric*, table linen and handkerchiefs; fire places; floor covers, carpets, mats, ete.; chimneys (tamp;; hardware springs; house furnishing goods; medical requisites; ropes (hemp and wire); ships' tackle; oii and lubrioante; belting, leather and cotton; aeroplanes and aowssorios for; baaKetwiare; carriage and. waggons; building mater-* ials; •electric furnace*; tenoing (wire) ; fla.gs; bottles, gymnasiio apparatus; hospital accessories; iron-work (pipee, and tu'bes, cast-iron, weldless and welded) ; printers' materials; saddlery; wire goods, gauge screens, etc. Catalogues of British manfacturers in (onsiderable numbers are allrwaye available tor inspection by traders in the office of His Majesty's Trade Commissioner, 11 Grey Istreet. 'Wellington.