THRIVING INDUSTRIES
CATERING FOR SPORT half a million golf clubs. The search for health and happiness is providing Britain with some of its most thriving industries, and providing employment for thousands of men and girls in new factories (states an industrial correspondent of the Daily Chronicle, London). Last year the output of sports requisites, games, and toys from the British factories was worth more than £6,000,000. Six hundred and fifty thousand tenuis rackets were manufactured, more than 300,000 cricket bats and 550,000 golf C 'There were 100,000 hockey sticks, 3000 croquet sets, 14,400,000 golf balls, 15,000,000 tennis balls, and 16,000,000 rubber balls of various kinds. The value of the output in some of these eases was: —Golf balls, ,£600.000; tennis rackets, £555,000; cricket bats, £120,000; golf clubs, £306,000; hockey sticks, £43,000. Tennis balls accounted for £500,000; other rubber balls, £125,000; footballs, leg guards, leather gloves, etc., £600,000. Fishing tackle was valued at £250,000 and billiard and bagatelle tables at £250,000.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22779, 15 January 1936, Page 8
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160THRIVING INDUSTRIES Otago Daily Times, Issue 22779, 15 January 1936, Page 8
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