JAPAN'S MACCLESFIELD
Mr. J. R. Remer, Conservative M.P. for Macclesfield, recently gave notice to ask Mr. Runciman, President of the Board of Trade: "If he ;s aware ths^ the Japanese have christened a village in Japan Macclesfield, in order to enable them to sell their silk goods as Macclesfield silk? If he will take the appropriate steps to prevent these goods being sold in the home and colonial markets marked in this way, and if he will make representations to the Japanese Government upon ' the matter."
Macclesfield, in Cheshire, has been renowned for its silk for centuries. The manufacture of silk-covered buttons began in the sixteenth century and flourished till the early eighteenth. The first silk mill was erected about the year 1755 and silk manufacture on a large scale was introduced about 1790,
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 10, 11 July 1936, Page 10
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134JAPAN'S MACCLESFIELD Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 10, 11 July 1936, Page 10
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