QUALITY OF DOWN.
MANUFACTURER’S INDICTMENT
Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, Sept. 12. “Because of the long distance which English manufacturers are from their customers they take liberties that would not be tolerated if put over by local manufacturers, such as the substitution of poor designs and colours where better ones were selected and ordered. The quantity and quality of down is not up to sample and there is a leakage of down through the coverings and the finish is of poor quality. If we took half the liberties that some English manufacturers take under these headings we would very soon be told about it." This indictment of a. certain class of English down quilt manufacturers wa9 made by Mr Roland Ellis, manag-ing-director of Ellis and Co., when he gave evidence to-day before the Tariff Commission in support of the request that the present duty of 20 per cent, on quilts be retained.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 244, 12 September 1933, Page 8
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151QUALITY OF DOWN. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 244, 12 September 1933, Page 8
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