SILK AS A LUXURY.
ILLUSTRATIONS 'IN HOUSE.
(Renter's Ti-lesrr.am.) LONDON, May 1
In Hip Housei of Commons during the Budget, debate, Mr. Guinness, defending Hie silk lax. denied that silk was anything but, a luxury. It was _ mixed with wool and cotton merely to increase its attractiveness, and was in mo wise economical to’ the poorer classes. He cited as an example of the superiority of cotton the fact that kidies preferred that the feet, and the tops of the stocking, to which they hitched suspenders, should not be made of silk.
This sally was greeted with cheers and laugher. Mr. Guinness scouted thn suggestion that the tax would appreciably affect the industry.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16719, 2 May 1925, Page 7
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