NEW ZEALAND-MADE GOODS.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —In your footnote to a correspondent's letter cm the above, you quoted a reply from a director of a local woollen manufacturing company in which he stated: “No article in direct competition with that produced locally was imported.' 1 Quito recently I had occasion to ask in two of our large drapery stores to he shown some woollen stockings (size 3) for a child of five years, stating 1 preferred Now- Zealand manufactured.. On each occasion i was told: “ The firm did not stock the New Zealand-made stockings because they could not compete with the imported article, and people would not pay the price necessary.'’ As 1 bad no time to spare for further inquiries. 1 had to he content with British stockings at 2s 10d and 3s 3d a pair, which I thought a lair price for a small stocking. Is it a fact that V. itli wool and wages down to the prc-.cin low love!, our New Zealand manufcetim.T- cannot eompeto; with the British prouuci : —-1 am. etc.. Ni.w Z::Ai,A?-i> i'Tusf. Mav ;;ij.
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Evening Star, Issue 21116, 31 May 1932, Page 3
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182NEW ZEALAND-MADE GOODS. Evening Star, Issue 21116, 31 May 1932, Page 3
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