SILK AND COTTON

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 523, 2 May 1925, Page 5

SILK AND COTTON

DERATE IN THE HOUSE OF

COMM ONS MEMBERS MUCH AMUSED (By Elecf.no Came.—-jopy right). (Aust. and N.Z < ntne aisiim«r,i,in' London, May 1. London, May J. In tlie House of Commons, during the Budget debate, Hon. Walter Guiness, in defending the silk tax, denied that silk was anything but a luxury. It was mixed with wool and cotton merely to increase the attractiveness and was iyno wise economical to the poorer, classes. He cited as an example of the superiority of cotton the fact that ladies preferred that the feet, and the tops of stockings to which they hitched suspenders, should not he made of silk. This sally was grofited 1 with cheers and laughter. The Hon. Guiness scouted tho suggestion that the tax would appreciably affect the industry.