EMPIRE FOODSTUFFS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2987, 16 January 1926, Page 4

EMPIRE FOODSTUFFS.

PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN NEEDED

“ESSENTIAL POLICY.”

LONDON, Dec. 31. “Everybody is sorry to hear of the Dominions’ soreness at the Government’s delay in carrying out the Imperial Economic Committee’s recommendations,” says the Daily Mail. “One of the main objects was to secure a larger sale of Empire foodstuffs. An energetic publicity campaign in Britain is needed. “Everyone’s first effort should be to keep British money within the British family. The spread of cotton growing would lower the enormous price now paid to America, and bring prosperity to Lancashire. It is a practicable development. Australia possesses a climate and soil peculiarly suitable to the finest cotton. “There are soils and climates in the Empire capable of growing every kind of product.” OUTLOOK FOR 1926. The Empire Industries Association, surveying the 1926 economic outlook, says that the state of depression for the last five years was only relieved by the Dominions’ and India’s increasing demand for home products. The Government’s general attitude, towards Empire problems and effective action with regard to safeguarding preference, admittedly have created a brighter situation than prevailed last year, but it is declared that unemployment can only be reduced to negligible proportions and the standard of living and the people’s security can only be raised or even maintained by. a more definite policy of Empire development by means of preference, Empire settlement, the Imperial loans and a bolder policy with regard to safeguarding essential industries.