BRITISH INDUSTRIES

Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1929, Page 6

BRITISH INDUSTRIES

OVERSEAS CATALOGUE OP PATH (British Official Wirelesß.) ■ ' RUGBY, Jan. 1. A special advance overseas edition of the' catalogue of the London r.bctioii c f the British Industries Fair, which will be held this year, is now being issued to 10,000 business men in Europe, North America, South Africa and the eastern coast of South America, including all those buyers who have notified the British Department of Overseas Trade by their intention to attend the Fair. By this publishing feat, which has only been made possible owing to the.kceness of ‘British manufacturers to participate in the Fair, trade buyers in cities iis far apart :s Constantinople, Cape Town and Vancouver will be able to receive a copy of the Fair catalogue before commencing their voyage to England. The catalogue, apart from containing descriptions of the exhibits more than 1200 British manufacturers, embodies a complete classification of all those exhibits by trades, and indexes, in nine languages, enabling foreign buyers easily to trace goods in which they are particularly interested. Enclosed with this catalogue of 700 pages is an advance list of some 700 firms which are exhibiting at the Birmingham section of the Fair, which takes place concurrently with the London section, from February 18th to March Ist.

OUTSPOKEN COMMENT. LONDON, Jan. 3.The “ Alorning Post” outspokenly asks: ‘‘Why is British industry so depressed? Wo are obliged to support more than a million unemployed. It is largely because the Workers are staggering under a load of taxation, constituting an overhead charge which lias gravely injured Britain as a competing .country in the markets of the world. It may be disagreeable to. have to say so, but that taxation mainly represents what we had to pay in order to save ourselves from destruction I>\ Germany. It is foolish to ignore fundamental facts. While the Brit ish back is almost cracking under the load, it is unfair, to ask us to accept the German postulate that there should be no payment in any way injuring the German standard of living or hampering her -industrial expansion. Lord Bevelstroke and Sir Josiah Stamp will bo proof against the suggestion made, even in British news papers, that the taxpayer should beat a little more in order that Germany should bear a little less.” The ‘‘Financial News” says:— “ There is no need for a prophet to foretell that reparations will be the chief international topic in 1929. Mr Gilbert’s final question is the reconciliation of conflicting ideas off justice. The real problem is to bring the experts’ plan within the range ol pi inciples common to all.” The “Daily Express” says: —“Tin year 1929 must see the complete with drawal of British troops from the Rhineland. We have been more lilu pettifogging attorneys, afraid oi France,'than British statesmen, con fident that what is right must be best.”