WOOLLEN MILLS

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20977, 4 October 1933, Page 14

WOOLLEN MILLS

'AN EXPANDING INDUSTRY' There ..is., one- secondary industry that farmers bestow a very kindly eye on, that is woollen manufacture. The mills have been very useful git the wool auctions in carrying along the competition, and making the limits of outside buyers a little jHore elastic. Statistics just published show that the value of land, buildings, plantr and machinery is £785,152 for the 310 mills operating. The persons employed number 2849, of whom 1390 are females. The salaries and wages paid amount to £316,352. The cost of § materials rose from £216,061 in 19312 to £323,610 in 1932-33, or by 24 per «ent. The scoured wool used totalled %900,54'f1b,: and the cost of it was '£241,42?.; Tweeds and clothes were by 1,276,144 yards, flannel 3865,728 yards, blankets 110,668 pairs, shawls and rugs 39,201, and yarn 829,4761b. The quantity of yarn increased over the previous year by 52 per cent., tweeds and cloth by 26 per

cent and flannel by 12 per cent. Blankets declined 5 per cent, and shawls ®nd rugs by 18 per cent.