DANISH TEXTILE INDUSTRY

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 68, Issue 143, 30 March 1948, Page 6

DANISH TEXTILE INDUSTRY

MARKETS SOUGHT IN NEW ZEALAND (P.A.) AUCKLAND, March 29. The Danish textile industry is eager to establish a market in New Zealand and; if possible, open mills, said Messrs Ernst Bremer and Juul Johansen, • representing two Danish textile mills, who arrived in a chartfered Skymaster from Sydney to-day.' “We will be in New Zealand about three weeks to confer with Government officials with a view to obtaining licences to export cloths to the Dominion,” said Mr Johansen. Denmark, he added, imported a large quantity of raw material from New Zealand, and textile production in his country had almost reached pre-war level. Denmark had to export at least 50 per cent, of its production to maintain the industry on an economic basis.

So far New Zealand had not imported Danish cloths, the bulk of the Dominion’s requirements being met by Britain and Australia, he said. If the talks here were satisfactory, they hoped to establish an export trade to the extent of £IOO,OOO annually, also to establish a small factory in Neiv Zealand staffed by about 200 workers. There negotiations in Australia were unsuccessful, Mr Bremer said ,as Australia was producing sufficient cloth for 'her own use. He had seen Australian products as far afield as India and the Malay States.