CAMPAIGN AGAINST GERMAN TRADE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 179, 2 June 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

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 British firms the nature of the goods made by German firms which were most successful in securing trade in Home, colonial and foreign markets. In the early stages of the war it was possible to collect and exhibit for the inspection of British firms the actual goods themselves, and this was rapidly done by the Board of Trade, trade by trade, until the time came when it was no longer possible to find sufficient ranges of samp'eg to make such exhibitions possible. It was then decided to make a collection 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 the market goods in competiton with German goods which had previously been in demand. The Board of Trade have now collected over 3,00*0 of these catalogues, and that their collection has been appreciated by British manufacturers is proved by the fact that applications for one or more of them are being received at the rate of °. thousand per month. The Board of Trade is however, anxious to make as complete a library of catalogues as possible. His Majesty's Trade Commissioner in New Zealand is therefore desirous of forwarding such German catalogues as may be procurable on this market. His Majesty's Trade Commissioner would lie glad to have the co-operation of traders in New Zealand, and would be glad to rece'-ve any catalogues which they may be able to let him have, so that they may be 6cnt to London tor the purpose indicated, namely, the assistance ot British f:rms to take ad*»antage of the present opportunity to replace German goods by British ou the markets of the Empire. The following is a list of goods for which catalogues are more especially desired: —

Clothing, hosiery, boots and snoes. (Manufacturers' catalogues, not merchants', of these required.)

Filters. Domestic brushes and brooms. Disinfectants. Educational models. Woven fabrics, tab'e linen, and handkerchiefs.

Fire-places. Floor covers, carpets, mats, etc. Chimneys (lamp.) Hardware springs. House furnishing goods. Medical requisites. Ropes—hemp and wire. Ships' tacklo. O Is and lubricants. Belting—leather and cotton. Aeroplanes, and accessories for. Basketware. Carriages and wagono. Bui'ding materials. Electric furnaces. Fencing (wire*. Flags. Bottles. Gymnastic apparatus Hospital accessories. Ironwork (pipes and *-übe«, cast-iron, weldless and welded.)

Printers' material". Saddlery. Stationery. Wire goods, gauge screens, dc