TO PUSH BRITISH TRADE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1626, 19 October 1916, Page 3

TO PUSH BRITISH TRADE.

A NEW COAHMEKCTAL DEPARTMENT. Questioned in Wanganui as to the sig'uilicanee of the eabled announcement made by Mr Jinncimau, President of the Hoard of Trade, as to the constitution of a new ami enlarged commercial department, combining the commercial intelligence and exhibition branches of the Hoard of Trade, Mr If. W. Dalton, li.M. Trade Commissioner for New Zealand, said: The commercial intelligence branch of the Hoard oi Trade has been in existence for

some sixteen or seventeen years, for the express purpose of dealing with exports. On the outbreak of war, the department consisted of some S(J or more ollicers. Soon after the war Die staff was increased to some 200, ami as an expert, organisation it ha<l, during the war period, dune a great deal to develop British trade, devoting special attention to the possibilities of taking advantage of alter-1 lie-war conditions. The exhibition branch is the department of the Hoard of Trade which organises Hntish representation at all the largest international exhibitions. The new development, concluded Air Dalton, “will obviously moan a very wide extension of the work of the Hoard of Trade in the development of British manufacturing industries a,ml the introduction of British goods oversells, by placing before tbe overseas markets information as well as the goods themselves.”