SHORTAGE OF COTTON
MORE ATTENTION TO SILK. OPPORTUNITY FOR DOMINIONS; Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. ) LONDON, September 4. (Received Sept. 5, at 8 p.m.) Professor Maxwell Lefroy, of the imperial Science College, States that cotton is becoming so expensive that manufacturers • are turning to silk. Experiments justify the hope that silk will shortly become one of the most important Empire products, though the present output of the outlying v’Enipiro areas is surprisingly small. India "'is highest- with only 2 per cent, of tho workfs production.— A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19270, 6 September 1924, Page 9
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87SHORTAGE OF COTTON Otago Daily Times, Issue 19270, 6 September 1924, Page 9
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