The British Industries Fair . Year by year the British
Industries Fair increasingly justifies its existence. At its inception it was thought .Of mainly as a means for stimulating the buying of Empire products for the home market. But it has become also a rendezvous for foreign business men who come not merely to see what new things are being made in Britain and the Dominions, but as buyers to place imPo' rtant orders. Whilst it serves to make known the novelties that have been produced, it also encourages, 'among manufacturers, a healthy. spirit of emulation and enter- prise. No one today can say—as might. justly have been said twenty or twenty-five years ago—that our • industrialists, satisfied that their goods were of high quality, were content to go on producing the same things over and over again.. Nor is it only in the new industrie, which have so conspicuous a place at Olympia, that novelties are on show. The' displays of textiles at the White City prove that the .textile manufacturers have been waking up to the needs of the time. The heavy industries will show what they have been doing later on —in May—at Birmingham;
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