Big Cuts In Civil Wool Supply
(Received 2'p.m.) LONDON, February 13. The wool controller (Sir Henry Shackleton) told the hosiery manufacturers that they rnusl be prepared for drastic restrictions of the civil wool supply. Only what was absolutely necessary would he supplied. Manufacturers would not receive more if they used up their rations. ■ He denied that rationing was unnecessary, and refuted assertions that the pre-war reserves were adequate. Consumption at present was 30 per cent above the peak of the last war. He denied that the wool control was guilty of profiteering. Actually, no profits were being ma”de, as the wool control was forced not only to buy the nation's wool, but to withstand losses arising from the sinking of ships. Two vessels sunk by the Graf Spee had made large inroads in the modest allocation.
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Northern Advocate, 14 February 1940, Page 5
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