CIVILIAN CLOTHING

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 226, 23 August 1945, Page 5

CIVILIAN CLOTHING

BRITAIN’S URGENT NEED. ! (Special Correspondent.) > BRADFORD, Aug. 22. 1 A great effort to increase Britain’s ’ rate of wool consumption in order to \ satisfy urgent civilian clothing require- , merits at Home and abroad is followipo- immediately on the close of the ! wa r and is actively supported by the I authorities. • j Clothing needs have been given r labour priority second only to food t j and building requirements and the i wool consuming trades will expect to l recruit much labour as the result of > official announcements that 1,000,000 ! I munition workers are. to be released ’ ! for civilian occupation in the next two I months and that 1,000,000 men will be demobilised before the year. ends. ! New Zealand woolgrowers will learn : : with interest that Britain is out to | recover at the earliest moment her ' position as the largest wool consumer in the world, a position temporarily r forfeited only because of the Jarge--1 scale conversion of her resources to I war needs. Arrangements arc already - 1 in hand to reopen, as soon as the la- - hour supply warrants such a _ course, 1 mills temporarily closed miner wnr- ' j time schemes of production and con- • centration. i “Even if jiroduction can be mcreasr ; e( ] it will take some time for it to ; reach the retail counter and mean- ‘ while there is the new clothes ration ' period to face.