Iho British Acting Vice-Consul at Osaka (l[r. W. li. Cunningham) has furnished a report on the glass industry of Japan, which, although of comparatively recent growth, has now become of some considerable importance. Tlie value of the total exnorts of glass and glassware Irom Japan in 1003 amounted to J3ICB P " re ']cnn' l h -C 133.233 in 1908, and jE39,<G7 in 1839. Osaka is the ccntro of the industry, and Contains nearly 150 I factoncs, in which glassware to the value mi n3 °ut ,000,000 is produced annually ille factories are mostly small, there b<y inpt only about -n dozen which employ 1 fif'y hands. Tho principal articles manufactured are bottles (of all. Kinds), lamps and lamp chimneys, and table ware. J
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1084, 24 March 1911, Page 7
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123Page 7 Advertisements Column 1 Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1084, 24 March 1911, Page 7
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