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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 May 1939, Page 2

A forecast that the present high price of raw silk, which has increased SO per cent, in six months, will continue to rise was given by Mr. G. W. Allan, an Auckland silk specialist, who returned from a business trip to Sydney by the Monowai. The increase so tar, he said, was in do way due to the import restrictions; but to a general shortage of raw silk on lhe world market. War preparations and motor-car equipment made excessive demands on the world’s supply of raw silk. The demand everywhere was much greater than the amount available, and it was increasing vapidly, lake other countries, New Zealand could use more silk if she could get if. as the people of the Dominion were. just as much “silkminded as in Australia. Modern methods of dealing with silk in both countries were almost identical. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, For Bronchial Coughs, colds, Influenza.