CHEAPER CROCKERY
ENGLISH FIRMS' ACTION
.} APANESE COMPETITION
What is described as a determined effort- to meet. Japanese competition is the action of five large English manufacturers in increasing their discounts on white dinner and tra eroeicery to Australia and New Zealand importers to an extent that represents a drop m price of about 10 per cent, This action, of which advice has just been received in Auckland, has been taken in the face of rising wages and dearer materials; indeed, prices of crockery m Kngland are actually advancing. Apparently the drop in price to the New Zealand and Australian trade was determined upon by the English Pottery Association, which* has been concerning itself with the problem of retaining markets that arc menaced by dnpan. Recently it reduced prices in South America. It is only white dinner and tea crockery that is considered to be menaced bv Japanese competition in New Zealand and Australia., and it is stated that the reduction 19 on this class of crockery, only. . . .
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19135, 2 October 1936, Page 7
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167CHEAPER CROCKERY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19135, 2 October 1936, Page 7
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