"CRISIS" FOR KNITTERS.
SHORTAGE OF NEEDLES. Knitters, don't lose your needles! Manufacturers of knitting pins, as they they call them, say that the demand has more than doubled since the war, but there would still be enough to go round—if women didn't lose them. Mr. G. Read, principal of one of the largest firms of knitting pin manufacturers in England said recently that they sent out half a ton of casein pins—those are the coloured ones like celluloid—in a week, and still had demands for more. "But it is the steel needles that are the real shortage," said Mr. Read. "The casein ones are inclined to break, and for long scarves and seamen's stockings women prefer steel needles. "We have to get a Government permit for Hie steel and we order a ton a weekWe do not get it all, but it shows what we could use." Another firm of manufacturers said that they lmd to employ extra staff to work overtime to complete with the flood, of orders which came in daily.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 90, 16 April 1940, Page 10
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173"CRISIS" FOR KNITTERS. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 90, 16 April 1940, Page 10
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