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Royal Colonial Institute,

Northumberland Avenue,

London, W. C.

21st. July, 1916.

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I am desired by the Trade and Industry Committee

of the Royal Colonial Institute te submit for the consideration of your Organisation a proposal made by this Committee embodied in the following Resolution:-

"That with a view to encouraging the establishment of new

"industries in the British Empire and giving a measure of "confidence and security to capital to be embarked therein,

well as assisting the expansion of existing industries "the Governments of the Empire be urged to make it "obligatory on all Government Departments, innicipalities, *Railways, Dock and Harbour Boards, Gas, Water and Electric "Light Corporations, and all such bodies spending public "wonies, or enjoying charters from Government or other "public authorities, to purchase Empire-made goods and to "place all contracts with British firms, exceptions to be *made, by special permission of proper authority, only, in "cases where such a course is considered to be at variance

"with public interests."

It is not necessary to emphasise that if it is mode compulsory in sach part of the Empire that Government Departments and Municipal and other Public Bodies plane contracts only with British firms (using that term in its

videst Imperial se196), it would prove a very strong factor in stimulating the establishment of new, and the growth of

existing industries as well as consolidating Inter-Empire trade.

The Imperial Government and each of the Dominion

and Colonial Governments having powers to legislate are being

approached on this matter by the Council of the Institute, and