TEXTILE INDUSTRY

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3495, 3 November 1926, Page 9

TEXTILE INDUSTRY

FRANCE AND GERMANY. EYE TO THE DOMINIONS. LONDON, September 25. An attack by French manufacturers upon tho New Zealand textile market was mentioned at a meeting of the Huddersfield Chamber of Commerce. A letter was read from the Pine Cloth Manufacturers’ Association stating that they wore informed by an agent in Wellington, New Zealand, that owing to tho depreciation in the franc the French were able to undersell this country in New Zealand to tho extent of Is Gel to 2s per yard. This was in spite of the preferential tariff on British goods. Mr. Thomas Hirst said that tho outlook was serious if the French were able to undersell British manufacturers in a country where British goods had preferential treatment. It was suggested that the correspondence should be laid before the Associated Chambers, with a view to discussion at tho Imperial Conference, and this was agreed to.

Correspondence which- had passed between a Hamburg firm and the Chamber of Manufacturers in Adelaide was read. The Hamburg firm described themselves as specialists in the manufacture of tcs.ile machinery. They wore prepared, if given adequate support from Australian capitalists, to start a factory for the manufacture of textile machinery. Mr. Thomas Hirst: "Any of our machinery makers could make the same offer. Their only object is to make money out of it ns promoters. Our own machine manufacturers have a better chance of getting the ear of the Adelaide Chamber.’ ’ The letter is to bo forwarded to the local Engineering Association.