CONSUMER GOODS
VAST DEMAND AFTER WAR PREDICTED BY PRESIDENT OF BOARD OF TRADE. SELECTIVE CONTROL LIKELY TO BE NEEDED. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 7. A forecast of a vast demand for consumer goods after the war was made by the President of the Board of Trade, Mr Lyttelton, in a speech today. Shelves all over the world, even in the United States, would be empty, he said, and he thought a selective export policy and control of imports would be necessary as part of the system to prevent an unregulated boom. For the first time in history Britain would be a debtor country. Mr Lyttelton said. He did not regard the present war as the end of European civilisation. The power of the modern world to recreate wealth must not be underrated, but the proper methods of direction, use and distribution of wealth must be learned.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 May 1941, Page 4
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