BRITISH INDUSTRIES FAIR

Hokitika Guardian, 21 March 1931, Page 6

BRITISH INDUSTRIES FAIR

WHAT THE EMPIRE SENDS. NEW PRODUCTS. LONDON, February 7. All tlie products of the Empire, some of them never seen in this country before will be on show at the 1031 British Fair. The Empire Marketing Board will he the biggest, exhibitor, and will occupy the place of honour apthc Addison road entrance to Olympia? 'Housed in an impressive stand, designed InMr Charles Holden, F.R.1.8.A., the architect of the new underground building at St. .James’s Park, its display will be more representative than ever before. Newfoundland and Ceylon have not exhibited in (this country since tho British .Empire Exhibition at Wembley. Newfoundland will display fresh-cured salmon, cod liver oil, and Newfoundland furs. Ceylon will show tea, rubber plumage, spices, and examples of its -cottage industries. Other novelties will be acacia seeds (used as cattle food) from Mauritius, tinned cream from the Irish Free , Static, new varieties of honey from , Cyprus, and a wonderful machine capable of grading 5,400 eggs into five sizes in an hour, demonstrated by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. Other exhibitors include England and Wales, 'Scotland, Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, the Gold Coast, Southern Rhodesia, the East African Dependencies, Malaya, and the British West Indies. Great Britain will he represented by a big display of home-produced foodstuffs, special empha/sis being given to National Mark beef, eggs flour, and malt. Northern Ireland’s products will he seen in a modernist setting. They will include ham—.special lv cut and cured for the London market—lard, honey, wafer oats, whisky, mineral waters, and canned apples and chickens. In addition to its tinned cream, the Irish Free State will show how it manages to expont 540,000,000 egge a vear, and will demonstrate its condensed milk, butter, bacon, hams, lard, vinegar, biscuits, honey, whisky, and stout. Samples of butter, condensed milk, and eggs will he on sale. Canada will display its multifarious food products, canned beans, for which it is famous, tomatoes, and tomato sauces, saner kraut, pickles, mince meat, macaroni, spaghetti, vermicelli, n complete range of cereal breakfast foods, fruit pectin, canned fruits, fish, and vegetables of all descriptions. It will also show its various leather and rubber goods. Among Australia’s many products l<> be displayed are wool, cereals, dried and canned fruits/- butter, eggs, honey, cheese, wines, canned meats and timher.

New Zealand is striking out a new line by showing how its products are made or prepared for the British market. The visitor will be able to see for., himself just how. meat its frozen for export, how butter is made in

huge quantities, and how honey is

gathered and bottled. South Africa is again concentrating on the fresh fruit which is becoming so popular in thie country. There will also be canned and dried fruits, eggs, jams, jellies, crayfish, wines and fruit drinks. India, while' emphasising its principal products, rice and tea, will also show lentiles, mango chutney, a delicious native product made of mango fruit and white sugar, cardamon, pepp'er. cinnamon, curry powder and cigars. In view of the world shortage of gold, the Gold Coast will this year concentrate on the metal from-which it takes its name. Since the Portu- j gueso first- found the Gold Coast some ’£6,000,000,000 worth has been taken | out, yet the soil' has “hardly been] scratched.” There" am many fortunes to be made 1 in the Gold Coast yet, and the exhibit will show the visitor how. Every year Rhodesian tobacco be-1 comes more popular, and Southern Rhodesia will devote the greater part, of its exhibit" to the many varieties of leaf, which are grown there, and flip excellent, tobacco made from them. It will also, show maize, cotton, ground nuts (peanuts), wheat, barley, oats, mineral products and timber. Dioramas, illustrating with vivid realism the main agricultural aoiivi-

ties of the country; - will he a feature of the East Africa exhibit. Alongside them will l>e samples of tlu> products—coffee, tea, tobaccos, sisal, maize and cotton. Pineapples are little used in this country save as a sweet or dessert, hot Malaya, which is concentrating on this useful fruit, hopes to show that it may be used with advantage in many disites. Some old favourites, as curried rabbit, steak and kidney nics, and filleted sole can be greatly improved with the aid of a little pineapple, and it is intended to cmphasisevthq fact.