CREDITABLE JOB.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 197, 20 August 1940, Page 4

CREDITABLE JOB.

WOOLLEN MILLS' OUTPUT. SUPPLIES FOR ARMED FORCES. ANSWER TO CRITICISM. WELLINGTON, this day. -Vt the annual meeting of the Wellington Woollen Manufacturing Ccnnpany thu i-hairinan, Mr. W. H. P. Barber, eaid that in his opinion the woollen industry ot New Zealand deserved commendation for Slaving done a creditable job by producing in quick time high quality supplies for the fighting forces. The change-over from domestic output to a largo proportion of ordnance supplies could not be effected hurriedly without 'Mo inconvenience to trade, and customers and the trade had accepted the resultant shortcomings with patience, goodwill and tolerance. Mr. Barber gave figures for New Zealand *howing what had been turned out for the army and air force, as follows: Worsted cloth, G27,oOovds; great coating, 313,000yd5: flannel ' shirting, 831,000 yds; blankets, 190,000 pairs; sock,s, 000,000 pa ire; under vests, worsted. 242; garments, shorts, 222,000; jerseys! 08,4.30. There were other sidelines and items for the navy. The list, he remarked, might instruct f-omo critics who publicly complained that in a. wool-growing country there should be no scarcity of wool, meaning knitting yarn. A large quantity of fingering yarn had been produced, but obviously not enough to meet military, need* and the legion of home knitters at the same time.—(Press Assn.)