NEW INDUSTRIES
AUSTRALIAN PRODUCTION WIDE VARIETY OF GOODS SYDNEY, April 5. Australia’s industrial development is putting on the local and export markets a constant stream of articles which it was thought could never be made here. The latest addition to the list is ginger, grown on the north coast of New South Wales. Ten acres are under cultivation, and its quality is claimed to equal that of imported ginger.
The growing of sunflower seeds, which are worth £3O a ton; ramie, used for making fibre; tung-oil nuts, for varnishes and insulation; canaubcr wax; and local gherkins is giving the man on the land new sources of income. Even rotten eggs, from which is produced leeethin, used in tiie manufacture of chocolate, have found a market. The fishing industry is also being developed for canning, oils, and fertilisers, and seaweed is being tested for chemicals.
City stores are now selling many articles previously imported, including spoons and forks, silk textiles, tapestry, bobby-pins, safety-pins and clips, elastic yarn, fountain-pens, special cosmetics, gloves, furnishing weavings, vacuum cleaners, and electric fans.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20527, 10 April 1941, Page 11
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177NEW INDUSTRIES Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20527, 10 April 1941, Page 11
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