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IT is encouraging to learn from the Report of the Empire Marketing Board for 1932-33 (H.M. Stationery Office, 1s.), that in spite of the economic depression during this period, twenty-four new records in the shipment of Empire products to Great Britain have been set up. Among the outstanding examples where the increase in the import has been nearly or even more than doubled are Australian eggs, Canadian tobacco, British West Indian bananas and New Zealand pears. Although a reduced vote has precluded any extension of its research programme, the Board has in general been able to maintain its grants, and a full account of the work in hand at the various institutes benefited is given in the report. Progress continues in the planning of joint programmes of research, and suggestions of special problems requiring investigations have been received from India and the Colonial Advisory Council of Agriculture and Animal Health during the past year. The market intelligence services have been continued and far-reaching developments in this direction are anticipated since the inauguration of an Empire broadcasting service at the invitation of the B.B.C. Considerable success has attended the Boards publicity activities, and both the number of films available and the public demand for them has been trebled during the year under review.
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Report of the Empire Marketing Board. Nature 132, 94 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132094c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/132094c0