KING FUAD
VISIT TO COTT(?S T MILLS
A ROUSING WELCOME
(Frees Association—By Telegraph—Copyright ) LONDON, July 19. (Received July 20. at 7.15 p.m.) King Fuad to-dav made a tour of the cotton mills in Lancashire. Of particular interest to the distinguished visitor was the first cotton mill which John Horrocks erected. In those days the only employees were John and his two sisters. Thousands of girls are employed to-day in Horrocks’s mills, and thev g9-ve King Fuad a rousing welcome as ho passed under an arch of 120 bales of Egyptian cotton, weighing 40 tons. He witnessed the whole process of manufacture rom the opening of the bales to the finished article. —A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20156, 21 July 1927, Page 10
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