WOOLLEN TRADE
EXPORTERS' TROUBLES
BRITISH VISITOR'S VIEWS
As head of the Yorkshire spinning firm of Hield Brother's, which has four mills in Yorkshire and one in Panada, and exports all over the world, Mr David Hield is on a business visit to New Zealand. Employing over 2000 hands, the Hield mills produce annually the enormous total of 50,000 pieces of cloth, sufficient to make 1,000,000 suits. '"Our main troubles are tariffs, exchange .and quotas," said Mr Hield in an interview in Dunedin. "Each country is trying to become more nationalistic The marvel is that we retain our export, trade. New Zealand manufacturers have a wonderful advantage over English exporters by the unduly high pegging of the exchange." Although he would not go so fur as to admit that the woollen industry was booming in England, Mr Hield said that trade had improved markedly and unemployment in it was lower than for many years.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18923, 27 January 1936, Page 5
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153WOOLLEN TRADE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18923, 27 January 1936, Page 5
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