GERMAN GOODS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 29 April 1926, Page 5

GERMAN GOODS.

FLOOD LOCAL MARKET. The New Zealand market is being fioodedi with all manner of Germanmade goods, which are finding a; ready .market for the reason that British goods are unable to compete with them, though flavoured by a preferential tariff. The drapers' .shops are now (Stocking large quantities of fabrics, cotton .gloves, and artificial silk stockings, and trimmings, all of which have tiheir origin in Germany. The gloves, iwhich are tastefully made, are plainly .stamped “Made .in Germany.” There is no camouflage. German pianos are beginning to find favour once more.; German gramophones, German records, pottery, china, clocks, watches, and fancy goods of all kinds may . be found in .almost every shop. One shopkeeper said that one might as well he out of business a.s to refuse to stock the great variety of. German-made goods now being offered to the trade, savs the Dominion.

In some cities businesses have been established to sell. German, Austrian, and Czecho-Slov akian goods, to the exclusion of British and American, the tariff being no obstacle to their success.

Mr. H. Ruroller, the J. O. Williamson producer, who has just returned from England, states that Germany threatens seriously to be America’s big rival, in the film industry. The German pictures of to-dav, he says, are being done on a magnificent scale, and their artistry is unquestioned.