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Advertisements. 



EMPIRE TRADE AND INDUSTRY 



COMMITTEE 



of THE ROYAL COLONIAL INSTITUTE. 



Chmrman: BEN H. MORGAN, Esq. 



STANLEY MACHIN, Esq. (Ex-Chairman, London 



Chamber of Comirierce). 

 EDWARD MANVILLE, Esq. (Chairman, Society of 



Motor Manufacturers and Traders). 

 R. K. MORCOM, Esq. 

 Sir DANIEL MORRIS, K.C.M.G. 

 Sir OWEN PHILIPPS, K.C.M.G. 

 ELLIS T. POWELL. Esq., LL-.B., B.Sc. 

 The Hon. Sir C. H. RASON. 

 JOSEPH RIPPON. Esq. 

 HAROLD T. POOLBY, Esq. , Secretary. 



Major M. ARCHER-SHEE, D.S.O!, M.P. 

 HENRY BIRCHENOUGH, E.sq., C.M.G. 

 W. M. BOTSFORD, Esq. 

 G. McL. BROWN, Esq. 

 Colonel JOHN DENNY. 



Lt.-Gen. Sir J. BEVAN EDWARDS, K.C.B., K.C.M.G. 

 HUGO HIRST, Esq. 

 RICHARD JEBB, Esq. 

 Hon. J. G. JENKINS. 

 Sir GODFREY LAGDEN, K.C.M.G. 

 Sir CHARLES LUCAS, K.C.B., K.C.M.G. (Chairman 

 of Council of the Institute). 



The principal objects of the Committee are ; 



1. To facilitate, encourage and arrange industrial conferences or meetings to be 

 attended by men of affairs from any or all parts of the Empire in order to discuss 

 questions of common interest with a view to regulating and co-ordinating the 

 conditions of Empire trade and industry. 



2. To encourage and facilitate Empire trade and industry by (inter alia') arrang- 

 ing for the reading of papers and delivery of addresses on financial, industrial and trade 

 subjects by authorities before the Institute itself and before Chambers of Commerce, 

 Trade bodies and like institutions in the leading industrial centres, collecting and 

 distributing information, etc. 



SPECIAL SERVICES. 



The following special services are at the disposal of British men of business, and are 

 used by a large and increasing number of such persons : 



(1) To bring before the notice of persons in the United Kingdom likely to 

 be interested, any British product which is characteristic of or peculiar to any one 

 of the British Possessions. 



(2) To introduce the Raw Materials of the Empire to Manufacturers. 



(3) To find for buyers Overseas, British manufacturers to make goods formerly 

 obtained from Germany and Austria. In some cases the Committee has induced 

 British firms to take up the manufacture of goods formerly not made at all within 

 the Empire. 



(4) To bring the names of persons abroad desiring agencies before British 

 manufacturers. 



For firms and persons in Great Britain : 



(5) To supply information in respect to any of the markets of the Empire 

 from the special reports and other sources of information in the records of the 

 Committee. To obtain special information as to the particular requirements of 

 manufacturers in the countries of the Empire. 



(6) To advise manufacturers and others as to peculiarities ol packing, language, 

 climate, etc., afEecting the sale of particular classes of goods in any of the said 

 countries, and as to the rates, duties, freights, etc., obtaining. 



(7) To put manufacturers in touch with agents and buyers oversea ; 

 and : — 



(8) Generally to take an active part in any movement which has for its 

 object the improvement of commercial relations between the constituent parts of 

 the British Empire. 



A full account of the Committee's recent activities will be found upon pp. 51-58 

 of this Year-book, and booklet explaining its work and objects will trladly be sent on 

 application to Harold T. Pooley, Esq,, Royal Colonial Institute, Northumberland Avenue, 

 London. W.C. 



