Hardware merchandising September-December 1919 . ven up to thepresent, the industry had to use manysubstitute materials which] bave beenentirely unsuitable for toy manufactur-ing. Now that trade has been resumedwith most of the world, Germany findsthat the market for toys, especially inCanada, is not what it used to be. From reports coming from Germany,it appears that American buyers of Ger-man toys have thus far confined theirefforts to the completion of shipments oftoys purchased before the United Statesentered the war, but the shipment ofwhich to America was prevented as a re-sult of blocka
Hardware merchandising September-December 1919 . ven up to thepresent, the industry had to use manysubstitute materials which] bave beenentirely unsuitable for toy manufactur-ing. Now that trade has been resumedwith most of the world, Germany findsthat the market for toys, especially inCanada, is not what it used to be. From reports coming from Germany,it appears that American buyers of Ger-man toys have thus far confined theirefforts to the completion of shipments oftoys purchased before the United Statesentered the war, but the shipment ofwhich to America was prevented as a re-sult of blockade regulations. Americantoy houses appear to have been makingpractically no effort to resume their im-port trade from Germany. However, twoof the largest toy houses in New Yorkhave iust sent American representativesinto Germany. Manufacturers Were Welcomed at St. John Following a meeting of the CanadianManufacturers Association held in , , to discuss various businessmatters, the members were tendered abanquet at the Union Club. W. W. S. FISHER Of the hardware firm of Emerson &Fisher who presided at banquet to Can-adian Manufacturers held in St. John, Fisher, of the hardware firm of Emer-son & Fisher, was chairman and pro-posed the tjast to Our Guests. Indiscussing the work of the CanadianManufacturers Association, he pointedout that it was the intention of eachmember to increase his own businessand at the same time promote the in-terests of his fellow manufacturers andof Canada generally. The manufactur-ers, he said, can promote Canadian busi-ness in a very vital way and the morethat members did in the way of placing Canada first, the better it would servetheir own interests. Mr. Fisher is second vice-president ofthe Canadian Manufacturers Associa-tion, having been honored by beingelected to that office at the annual meet-ing. MONOPOLY FOR ELECTRIC LAMPS By a royal decree recently issued, theItalian Government has established amonopoly in the electric lamp tr
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