FORGING AHEAD.
THE SHIRT-MAKING TRADE. (Special to the “ Guardian ”) CHRISTCHURCH, November 25.' Factories were working at top pressure to meet the Christmas demand in the shirt-making trade, said tho Minister of Supply (the Hon. D. G. Sullivan) to-day, referring to the service manufacturers were giving in the expansion of industry. One factory estimated that its output this year would be more than 500,0:00 shirts and almost 1,000,000 collars. “Arrangements have also been completed for the manufacture in New Zealand of a world-wide marketed brand of shirt, and to cope with this new underaking a new factory is to he built,” added the fJinister. “The plant necessary for the new venture has already come to hand, and no time is being lost in expediting building to enable production to he undertaken.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 39, 26 November 1940, Page 7
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