The Prince of Wales and the Prime Minister spoke at
a dinner at the Mansion House on Monday to celebrate the opening of the British Industries Fair in London and Birmingham. His Royal Highness began by speaking . with feeling of his experience among the unemployed, and he said that he could not help looking upon the Fair in the first place as a means of reducing unemployment. But there were, of course, many ways of doing that, and for his own part he could see " no limit," to what might be accomplished by overseas settle- ment if the problem. were properly handled with the co-operation of the Dominions. The Fair suggested to him that though British workmanship was the best in the world, it was useless to produce the best of goods unless they.could be sold. Demand could be created, and that was the function of salesmanship. " Is the salesmanship of this country entirely up to• date ? Is it up to the standard of the worknianship ? " During his travels he had come across British communities in distant places who were anxious to buy British goods, but were unable to do so because the goods were not suitable to the local conditions. The same thing was true of-foreign countries.
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