IRISH LINEN TRADE.
INCREASED BUSINESS,
The present low price of flax and the consequent cheapness of liilen is leading to a, revival in the demand for all classps of linen goods in the world's export markets, particular lv in the United States. During the Great War the urice of flax in the Irish markets advanced to over 35/ per st. Just before Christmas it was selling below the prewar iigure at 5/ per st.,' or Id per lb less than the price of American (middling) cotton on the Liverpool market. The manufacturing processes are a little more complicated and expensive for linen than for cotton goods, but notwithstanding this the fact that the cost of the raw material for linen is now considerably cheaper than that of cotton is giving the luien trade an advantage, and the future is now regarded with more hopo than was possible even six months ago. Kenresentatives of Belfast linen houses who have returned from business trips to the United States have been impressed by the favourable position in which linen has been placed, and are hopeful of even greater business in linen goods in the United States in the immediate future, notwithstanding the serious trade i depression now prevailing there
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 39, 16 February 1931, Page 4
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206IRISH LINEN TRADE. Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 39, 16 February 1931, Page 4
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