KENYA PENCILS
To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Readers of the Spectator who are anxious to support Empire industries may be interested to learn that they can now purchase 100 per cent. British Empire pencils which arc equal in quality to any of the foreign makes. These pencils are manufactured from Kenya Colony cedar wood, a wood which in every respect is the equivalent of the American red cedar wood. Readers should ask for the " Marmanet " pencil series which can be obtained at most stationers. The pencils-contain graphite from Canada and Ceylon, wax origin- ating in British India and Australia, gum from India, and dye- stuffs from other British territories. I am not in the remotest degree interested in the sale of these pencils except for Imperial and sentimental reasons.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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