CO129-554-7 British Empire and China Trade Fair 14-5-1935 - 23-10-1935 — Page 63

JURY.

The Advertising and Publicity Bure

China

& Malay as

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34. George's Building,

HICKOR

8th April, 1255.

The Secretary;

H. X. General Chuber of Commer

PRICING.

Deer är,

We thank you for your letter of April 3rd.

You no doubt appreciate that we have not gone into the question

of holding the Trade Fair without vory carefully sounding the opinions of

thome most interested in the question of Anglo-Chinese trvale, both in othar“

parts of the British Empire and in Chirm.

Under theme circumstances, whilst acospting your stabeant that

merchants are confronted with increasingly diffimult con:itions which

oporate against a free flow of trude, we venture to think that it

hardly be logically deduced from this that the Trade Fair can not have any

beneficial effect. Nor, with all respect, do we think that aonai aration

of its benefits oɛn entirely be assessed by its value to the local moralint

interests only, which are international rather than wholly British.

Interests that have a definite stake in the China market and

would benefit by the development of Anglo-Chinese trade and connections, are (a) memufacturers and exporters throughout the iritish Jagdre; (b)

Chinese merchants who maat sort their geois to obtain greater purchasing

power for imports which, in a considerably larger mæber of onses than is

the case at present, might be British instead of foreign.

Whilst in no my deprecating the existing merchent interests,

we realize that they have other interests not concerned with purely Anglo-

Chinese trade i in such cases the Trade Fair would admittedly not bring

sexy apprealable or imminate benefit and, to that extent they might be

my

unfavourably inclined, or invifferent to the trade fair.

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