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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 173, 25 July 1939, Page 3

FEILDING and DISTRICT Office : Kimbolton Road Phone 331 Local Representative: K. M. LITTLE.

Women’s Cheap Hats. The women of New Zealand wear approximately three times as many hats of Dominion manufacture as men, yet they pay about half as much for them as men do. This was one of a number of interesting disclosures relat-' iug to the hat manufacturing industry in New Zealand made by Mr. W. E. Barnard, M.P., when speaking at a ceremony to mark the expansion of a Napier | hat and cap factory. Mr| Barnard said the production of women’s hats in the Dominion had grown from 6300 dozen in 1932-33 to 126,925 dozen in 1938-38, j and of hats for men and boys from i 34,396 dozen to 34,893 dozen. The total number of liats and caps made in New Zealand in 1937-38 was 161,818 dozen. Over a period of six years the number of hats manufactured in New Zealand was 7,413,120 for women and 2,039,304 for men. Women, as compared with men, had hats at the rate of more than three to one, yet the total money spent by women on their hats was only about half that spent by men.