BRITISH INDUSTRIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 February 1921, Page 8

BRITISH INDUSTRIES.

GLIMPSES ON THE FILM. TARANAKI EXHIBITION. ■Captain John S. Drysdale, manager of the Eastern section of the world tour showing pictures of British industries, has written to the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce giving some details of the intended tour of the Dominion. He has just arrived from Sydney, and has shown South Africa, and all Australia, excepting Queensland, which he visits after leaving New Zealand. He expects to be about two months in New Zealand. The pictures represent 46,000 feet of film. Eighty different British industries are shown, including the Mersey Docks and shipping at Liverpool, the Tyne and its shipbuilding, also cotton and spinning and weaving, engineering, wallpaper, ship and locomotive building, and airship construction. Admission is by invitation first for business men, but it is hoped that their staffs and apprentices, also school children and the general public, will have opportunity to see what a marvellous recovery Great Britain has made in returning from the manufacture of implements of war to those Required in the arts and industries of peace. One picture will show a great works engaged on the manufacture of shells and twelve months after the armistice turning out locomotives, the first of them leaving Qie shop under its own steam. The exhibition of these British industrial pictures was well received by the South African Union Government, and the State Governments of Australia. Captain Drysdale’s mission is officially supported by the British Department of Overseas Trade and the Trade Commissioners attached to this department: also the British Associated Chamber of Commerce and the Chamber of commerce In the places he has visited; similar exhibitions arc being given simultaneously in South America. The President of Brazil was present at a command exhibition. The idea of the films is to demonstrate to the world that as a manufacturing country Britain is herself again, and in some respects more so.

The present plan is to tour the South Island after an official opening at Wellington, and then proceed to Napier, Palmerston North, Wanganui, New Plymouth, shewing at the Empire Theatre. on April 7 and 8.