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DOMINION-MADE PLAIN CROCKERY BAN ON BRITISH IMPORTS (P.A. WELLINGTON, Feb. 12. To protect local industry, _ the Government recently issued legislation curtailing the importation of crockery from England, by an order gazetted on January 5 30. The importation of undecorated cups and saucers, unless part of a > complete dinner or tea set, is prohibited. The terms of the order, according to a manufacturers’ agent, are as yet nebulous and its demands uncertain. As far as he understood, New Zealand agents of English crockery manufactures arc prevented from ordering, further supplies of plain cups and saucers. Cups and saucers were manufactured in Auckland, but these, he said, were generally considered of inferior design and workmanship. The Temuka ware made in the South Island compared favourably with its English counterpart in all but price. The wholesale cost of plain English cups and saucers was 14/1 a dozen. The wholesale price of the South Island clips alone was 24/- a dozen, and so far saucers had not been manufactured.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 February 1947, Page 2
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