WOOLLEN TRADE.
EXPORTERS' DIFFICULTIES. VIEW OF BRITISH VISITOR, (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) DUXEDIX, this day. As liead. of .the Yorkshire spinning firm of Hielcl Bros., which lias four mills in Yorkshire and one in Canada, and exports all over the world, Mr. David Hield is on a business visit to New Zealand. Employing over 2000 hands, the Hield mills produce annually the enormous total of 50,000 pieces of cloth, sufficient to make 1,000,000 suits. _ "Our main troubles are tariffs, exchange and quotas," said Mr. Hield in an interview. "Each country is trying to become mOTe nationalistic. The marvel is that we retain our export trade. New Zealand manufacturers have a wonderful advantage over English exporters by the unduly, high pegging of the exchange." Although he would not go so far as to j admit that the woollen industry was booming in England, Mr. Hield said: that trade had improved markedly and unemployment in it was lowex* than foi many years.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 21, 25 January 1936, Page 12
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