THE NEED OF EXPANDING A VALUABLE INDUSTRY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14287, 2 May 1917, Page 8

THE NEED OF EXPANDING A VALUABLE INDUSTRY.

> "It is a great source .of , weakness', both to the cotton industry and to the nation, that such a large proportion 4 of [raw cotton should be, drawn fronHdne | Source of supply, and that so .valuable jari industry should be dependent on the vagaries of cultivation and climate m lone section of the world." This, was* the [reply. made by Mr.G.-H. Roberts, Parliamentary Secretary ito^-the i^oard of [Trade, to a dep.^atipn , ' : frdm-^^e6ttq'n trade, who urged, ori, liim ;,the-'g'rwity of ["the situation with regard^^ 'tp;;cßtt6n.sui)---i ply, and the need'of future d^velolmiferits [.within the Empire. 1 : y 'y ffi; *'; :{■■•.;] '". ." A i- Tlie deputatiou.\y'a^'!i(rit'roq^d ; :"bv,/ihe' Huke, of Marlborojugh. 'It w^'s ■' pointed gut - that wherever,, tlie; . BritjisH^Ootton Growing , Association .had 'been'';siftx-css-ful, m establishing cotton grow'ifig 'it had bfpugijt prosperity^ j,a^^jtA^fit^mad« possible large reductioii^';iii, "^fe "graiitsiivaiaT for East iAfricffj^tJ^riddr^yasalajid, aiid Northern Nigeijia'.,, 1$ was also claimed thai if : imgatidh jvorks were, pushed on m one of the Empire (the Gezira .^laiii) there pvoul'd he an annual priidupl^n ( ffratC. least 80,000 bales- of lu|[l*i^a^s" : -c'oljtoi>': 'within tho next five y ear's-: '•>&?», '•' <j j-izih . ' ■:. *'* = : l"«:'1?g 4 -.^ M f/ir?.',ti ■•.-

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