CAMPAIGN AGAINST GERMAN TRADE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1554, 23 May 1916, Page 4

CAMPAIGN AGAINST GERMAN TRADE.

COLLECTION OF GERMAN CATALOGUES.

In connection with the campaign against German trade which was initiated by the Board of Trade in England in the early days of the war, much good work has been done in bringing to the. notice of most British linns the nature of the goods made by German linns which were most successful in securing trade in Home, colonial, and foreign markets. In the early stages of the war it was possible* to coiled and exhibit for the inspection of British (inns (he actual goods themselves, and this was rapidly done by Hie Board of Trade, trade by trade, until the time came when it was no longer possible to (bid snflieienl ranges of samples to make sm-h exhibitions possible, li was then decided to make a collodion of German catalogues and to form a. reference library of such catalogues for the benefit of those British firms who were desirous of placing on Hie market goods in competition with German goods which had previously been in demand. The Board of Trade have new collected over 3.000 of these catalogues, and that (heir collection has been appreciated by British manufacturers is proved by the fad that applications for one or more of them arc being received al the rale of 1,000 per month. The Hoard of Trade is, however, anxious In make as complete a library of catalogues as possible. His MajeslyV 'trade ('oumiissioaer in New /calami is therefore desirous of forwarding such German catalogues as may be procurable on this market. His Majesty's Trade Commissioner would be glad, to have the co-op-eration of trailers in New Zealand, and would be glad to receive any catalogues which I bey may be able to let him have so that they may be sent to London for Hu* purpose indicated. viz... the assistance of British linns to take advantage of the present opportunity to replace Germa?) goods hy British on the markets of Ho* Empire.

The following is a list of the goods for which catalogues are more (‘specially desired . ( lolhing, hosiery, bools and shoes (manufacturers 1 catalogues, not merchants , of these required), filters, domestic brushes and brooms, disinleetants, educational models, woven fabrics, table linen and handkerchiefs, tire places, lloor covers, carpets, mats, etc., chimneys (lamp), hardware springs, bouse furnishing goods, medical requisites, ropes (hem)) .and wire), ships’ tackle, oils and lubricants, belting (leather and cotton), aeroplanes and accessories lor, basket ware, carriages and waggons, building materials, electric furnaces, fencing wire, (lags, bottles, gymnastic apparatus, hospital accessories, ironwork (pipes and tidies, castiron, weldless and welded), printers’ Tniutoriiilsj st;itu»nci\, wue goods, gauge screens, etc. Catalogues of British manufacturers in considerable nuiiiliei's are always available for inspection by traders in the office of His Majesty's Trade Commissioner, 11 Grey Street, Wellington. *