§ Mr. D. G. SOMERVILLEasked the Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department the names of the various trade associations of the textile industries which requested his Department to arrange for Exhibition Organisers, Limited, to organise the textile section of the British Industries Fair, and if any firm other than Exhibition Organisers, Limited, have applied to him for an opportunity of undertaking this work?
§ Mr. GILLETTThe Department of Overseas Trade has deputed Exhibition Organisers, Limited, to undertake certain work in connection with the organisation of the textile section of the forthcoming British Industries Fair as the result of a recommendation agreed to at a meeting of the British Textile Exhibition Committee at which the following associations and bodies were represented:
50WThe Joint Committee of Cotton Trades Organisations comprising 13 separate organisations.
The Silk Association of Great Britain and Ireland.
Macclesfield Silk Trade Employers Association.
Bradford Chamber of Commerce.
Nottingham and District Lace Curtain Manufacturers Association.
Nottingham Lace Curtain Bleaching, Dressing and Finishing Association.
National Association of Unions in the Textile Trade.
Exhibitors at the last Exhibition of British Artificial Silk Goods.
So far as I am aware, no other organisation has expressed the wish to undertake this work.