12 APRIL 1930, Page 3

A Development Council It is excellent news that the Department

of Overseas Trade has . created an Overseas Trade Development Council. The Department itself was barely saved from annihilation, when Mr. Baldwin was cutting down expenses, by the declarations of traders that no .Depart- ment had helped them so much. The new Council will continuously review the state of export trade, calling into consultation the representatives of whatever trade is being discussed ; and many leaders of industry have wholeheartedly promised their co-operation,