It affords me very great pleasure to hear the hon. Member for the Drake Division (Sir A. S. Benn). It came very strangely to manufacturers listening to the speech that we had from the hon. Member on the Labour benches, who was instructing us and giving us some idea of the man who knows nothing about the manufacturer's difficulty, and telling us how we ought to run his businesses. The idea of going to Lancashire and advising the cotton manufacturers there that they might rely on some sort of synthetic production which would take the place of ordinary cotton is almost too ridiculous to speak of. I welcome and support the Motion for one special reason. I believe it will bring about an investigation into the whole of our Consular Services. I believe it will make us realise how important it is that a manufacturing nation should have in every important country in the world men who will understand and take a much keener interest in our products than they have hitherto. As a manufacturer I can remember myself that we had the greatest difficulty in finding out what the wants were in the various parts of the world, the various peculiarities, the various differences necessary to suit these particular markets. All these things are important, and it would be of great assistance to the manufacturer who cannot keep a representative in every country in the world if we had some national system. I have no doubt that the explanation of Germany's great and rapid advance in pre-War days was due to the fact that the German Government worked in conjunction with her industries in capturing these markets. To be told here to-night that we have a Board of Trade and everything is satisfactory is disappointing. That is the worst word I will use. We all recognise that the huge debt of the War must be paid for by our own industry, and we also recognise that it will take some time, however capable this Government or any Government may be in the reconstruction of Europe, before Europe can regain the purchasing power she had in pre-War days. Now we have the wide markets of the East as well as South America, which have never been thoroughly developed so far as this country is concerned. I think myself that the British manufacturer is very much misunderstood. I remember as a boy in New Zealand the complaint of the New Zealander was, "We cannot get what we want from the British manufacturer," and they were blaming the British manufacturer, while the real reason was that the British manufacturer did not know what was wanted, and had no one in New Zealand to bring before him exactly the requirements. Because I believe that a Committee constituted on even broader lines than suggested by the Motion will prove very useful and helpful to the industries of this country, I shall be very glad to support the Motion.