ENGLISH TRADE FAIR

Hokitika Guardian, 29 December 1931, Page 7

ENGLISH TRADE FAIR

IN TWO CITIES. ATTRACTING- OVERSEAS BUYERS / WEILJ NGTO N, Dec 21. Mr L. A. Paisli, British Trade Commissioiier in New Zealand, in an interview dealing with the coining Tiadt Fail* in England, said it would he bigger and more representative of British industry than ever before. The opening day had been fixed for February 22 in London and Birmingham simultaneously. The date selected foi the opening had been found Suitable tor the principal buying season in a majority of the industries represented, and in order to atract the trade buyers from other countries who arc in the habit of paying their annual business visit to Europe at that time of the year. In. London the principal development would be a new section filling {\ large part of the White City, Shepherd’s Bush, for the first combined display of the great textile industries of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. COTTON AND SILK. *‘Last February for the first time,” Mr Paisli remarked, “there was < new section at the White City for the products of the cotton textile industry, while the British Artificial Silk Exhibition became to all intents anc 1 purposes part of the Fair by being held during the first week of the Fair at the Royal Albert Hall, These two •.exhibitions, the cotton section organised by the Lancashire pptton trade organisation and the artificial silk show were such a success that meeting! were called of representatives of these and the textile industries, and it was unanimously decided to make a joint display in 1932. The joint textile section, which is being organised by a committee of which Lord Derby is president, will be representative of the coton, woollen, and worsted. silk and artificial silk, linen, and other industries connected with t.ex-, tiles and clothing. The section, like the other sections of the Fair in London, will be under the control of the Department of Overseas Trade, and it will include the miscellaneous • textile and clothing section which has beer held in recent years at Olympia, London, where last February there were displays by leach ng manufacturer; of such articles ns hats, corsets smallwares, gloves, homespun tweeds, and linen goods of every kind. « DOMINION’S PRODUCTS

“Tlie lighter industries other than textiles will continue to be housed al Olympia, where also the Empire Marketing Board will have its display o' the products of the British Dominions and colonies. New Zealand always has magnificient section. The Empire section is, .tlie niosl prominent feature at Olympia, where it is given a place tif honour, extend jng across the full width of the Grand Hall (the main hall) immediately al the entrance.

“The heavier industries, once again will have their display in the mam moth permanent Fair buildings a Castle Bromwich, Birmingham, am there no less- then in London import ant developments are promised. Om of the most important, involving stil further extensions of the buildings, is a new section for cycles and motorcycles, their prominent parts, tyre.and other rubber equipment, and accessories of every kind. This sect.oj will bo the first representative dis play in the Fair of the British cych and motor-cycle industry. '“Another new section at Cast!' Bromwich will he for quarrying an roadmaking plant, and in the organ's ation of this Fair will have the cc operation of the Institute of Quarrying, which has in recent years organ 'ised an exhibition of this lend Some of the exhibits in this section will be out-of-doors, so that praetica demonstrations will be possible wit the largest mechanical excavators cranes, stone-crushers, and othmachinery.”

“A NEW ERA.” “With ' prices exceptionally lo\ there is every reason to believe tha of the Fair of 1932 will be a success for although trade conditions early h 1931 were as bad generally as the had been since the war, the Fair o last February "'as thought by man' quite impartial observers to be the be ginning of a new era in its history. ■?The Commissioner thought that i: many minor ways the overseas buye vwould find the Fair of 1932 more con venient and attractive than in pro vious year, and it was hoped for the first time to make arrangements fo civic and other forms of hospitality which were likely to appeal to the busines man from abroad, whethe from a British or a foreign country A special committe lias been forme* to consider practical ways and mean: of extending real hospitality to al who are likely to appreciate it. The advance edition of the Londo) catalogue will again be ready, wit; index in nine languages, for clefpatch overseas six weeks before tin opening of the Fair, and the Birinim ham organisers have "other plans f making it easy for overseas buyer to ascertain in advance what the Fair 'has to offer them.