NOBLES TAKE UP CARPET MAKING.
Carpet weaving is the latest industry to lie invaded by aristocratic people bent on adding lo incomes, or finding work for their tenantry. Among them is the Duchess of Sutherland, who has started looms at Helmsdale in Sutherlandshire, in order to help the women affected by the decline in the Highland fisheries. As a purely business speculation, the Karl of Pembroke, the Earl of Radnor and Sir John Dickson-Poyn-der. have opened a carpet factory at Wilton, which is a centre of the trade The industry has also been introduced into Queens County, Ireland, by the Viseount dc Vesci.
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2643, 28 August 1906, Page 7
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103NOBLES TAKE UP CARPET MAKING. Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2643, 28 August 1906, Page 7
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