WHAT IS SHODDY?

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 910, 1 September 1910, Page 4

WHAT IS SHODDY?

;'. : ,v A "TAEIFF. .QUESTION. ■..; • ■'■~: '"What- is shbdiiy ?";" : askedXMr.; Allee*,:. M.P, fpr':Bruce,./;iu the House'.ofCßepre-};.; : sentatives .yesterday. ;\ He- had-asted-:th*;. Minister, "for , Customs whether-, he/would.amend the-Customs' Duties'.'Act-so-'as to•••: uiake provision, for the- introduction, of: ..; raw material—Viz!, ■ raw cotton—free ofduty, or else removo- tht. injustice whicnv.. now prevailed.\ Mr. 7Allen:'. Was ■ riot sat-•■-, : isfa'ed with: the.- reply ■ ■W™:~i%:*P t i■■ .'.- Fowlds, which- -.was~ to • the;.'.'effect --that;.. the Goverhnient could not .undertake any \ -j. reconsideration of the\ question . until .-the • :: schedules as to. the tariff again caino. up" ,; for revision, and . that .:it'-;.was .not. in- . tended to. bring forwiird any. Bill/tor .:; that purpose this, session.; '.";■•* ' .:' Havinga number; of sam.ples;of. flannei, and cotton goods, Mr. Allen pointed ouv that flannels and "other : manufactured .;; materials containing: large percentages_'of;i cotton were introduced into this Dominion ' ■ fr«h'-'of'.'dutj.-- -JiO'ciil" mills, if ;they.,at-; ' tempted to compete, the : difficulty that the raw material': subject to duty, and the manufnchirca . : - article was not. In conclusion, Mr. Allen. . said- that flannel" goods:.which "iMiitaincd ...• cotton was not shoddy. i.Shoddy,jlie ijin-Ji;- -■ derstood, was' old goods .r'e-inade.up";ia;.-.. 7 a cheap form." -In thft : , North ■':>il::vffeff.v'. r -. ZeainnU, and in the Cook Islands; cotton;-.;. goods were, in the warmer months;\ in:; : . much greater demand than , flannel- goods-, i; The Hon. G. • Fowld= 'Sc.id.tln> woollen 1 industrj - of .Nwr Zealand, as. a. whole,'■;':* was opposed'to the use of cotton''for -.-5 fear. it. would injure Ihe-.reputation of •': our goods.. It might be" th;<t sonie.inana; .S fucturers had; no\v changed, their Vie V.'; . His own view was that : niaiiy.:. aft'doa _~ were made more lastinj, , by the admix-. ' ture of .cotton, but the .House had given ■' : a definite decision on the matter. . ;:cj' :