SHODDY CLOTHING
Socks Made in Britain By Telegraph—l’ress Association. WELLINGTON, Sept. 13. In the Address-in-Reply debate in the House of Representatives Mr F. Jones (Lab., Dunedin South) said that people were fairly well protected against being sold shoddy footwear or impure food and drugs, but they were not protected against shoddy clothing. He referred especially to imported socks, a pair of which he produced and which were branded “all wool” but of which 50 per cent, was cotton." They came from Great Britain. The people, said Mr Jones, were being exploited by certain manufacturers. The Government knew of the position and he wanted to know what they were doing about it. Ho believed that socks were made of old clothes, recarded in Britain. A fraud was being perpetrated on the people of New Zealand. Mr Jones added that examination of New Zealand-made socks showed that New Zealand manufacturers had not adopted practices adopted by some British manufacturers. The Rev. Clyde Carr (Lab., Timaru): Were they really made in Britain? Mr Jones said he did not know, but they were so branded.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 230, 14 September 1935, Page 7
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