. Canadian forest industries January-June 1919. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 160 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER May 1, 1019 British Trade Commission Service in Canada Origin, Development and Scope of the Work—Commissioners are Official Commercial Representatives of United Kingdom in Self Governing Dominions "The United Kingdom is well organized for the conduct and ex- tension of export trade," said Mr. F. W. P'icld, British Trade Com- missioner in Ontario, in an interview with a representative of the "Canada Lumber
. Canadian forest industries January-June 1919. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 160 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER May 1, 1019 British Trade Commission Service in Canada Origin, Development and Scope of the Work—Commissioners are Official Commercial Representatives of United Kingdom in Self Governing Dominions "The United Kingdom is well organized for the conduct and ex- tension of export trade," said Mr. F. W. P'icld, British Trade Com- missioner in Ontario, in an interview with a representative of the "Canada ; "The British Government's Department of Overseas Trade, which I represent in Ontario, is co-operating with British manufacturers and trading associations and I am pleased to report that the work is progressing favorably. "The Trade Commissioner Service of the British Government is of recent origin. At the Imperial Conference of 1907, Sir Joseph Ward, Prime Minister of New Zealand, called attention to the need for official commercial representation of the United Kingdom in the self-governing Dominions. Mr. Lloyd George, then president of the Board of Trade, was able to inform the conference a few days after- wards that arrangements for the appointment of such officers were being made. The measures which were subsecjuently taken resulted in the institution, in 190(S, of the present service of four Trade Com- missioners, one being appointed for Canada and Newfoundland, and missioners and its extension throughout the British I'.mpire in ac- cordance with the recommendations of the Dominions Royal Com-, mission, and recommends that the governments concerned should' co-operate so as to make that service as useful as possible to the Em-: pire as a whole, especially for the promotion of Inter-imperial trade. Promoting Trade of Empire as Whole "The primary duty of the British Trade Commissioners appoint- ed in various parts of the British Em])ire comprises th
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