A report from Ottawa says that, in an endeavour to widen Canadian trade in the Far East, the Department of Trade and Commerce is contemplating opening show rooms for Canadian products in Sharghai. If the arrangements are perfected, the Department will authorize the necessary expenditure and will charge manufacturers nominal fees for space. The exhibit will be under the control of the Canadian Trade Commissioner, Dr. J. W. Ross. Manufacturers entering the exhibit will be called upon to supply their own salesmen, who will be responsible to their principals. The desirability of opening similar show rooms in other countries will be determined by the success of this project. The choice of Shanghai was probably due to the energy which Dr. Ross has shown in endeavouring to foster trade between Canada and China: he has been and is pre-eminent among the Canadian Trade Commissioners. He is at present engaged in touring Canada, pointing out to the manufacturers the opportunities which they have in China and the best methods of taking advantage of them. He spent several days at the great National Exhibition recently held at Toronto, and interviewed all the exhibitors whose goods were likely to be suitable for China. If a big trade should spring up, and there is every reason, to believe that it will, it will be mainly due to the long, energetic and far-seeing work of Dr. Ross.
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