WOMEN’S HOSIERY
HOW SHORTAGE COULD BE OVERCOME
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, July 25. A contention that the shortage of women’s hosiery in New Zealand could be speedily removed if the Government relaxed the import restrictions was advanced today by Mr Walter B. Williams, of Auckland, the representative of Canadian and British hosiery manufacturers. Mr Williams disagreed with the statement by Mr W. Fairbrother, of Christchurch, that the people of New Zealand had little to complain about over the shortage of stockings. Mr Williams said he applied ten months ago for a permit to establish a hosiery plant and had given evidence before a special committee appointed by the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, but was informed later that his application had been refused on the ground that the hosiery mills had undertaken to overtake the shortage in 1941. Mr Williams said he had made it clear that the plant would be paid for in Canada, involving no call on dollar funds. “My people in Canada are keen to do business with New Zealand, as also are my English principals,” he said.
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Southland Times, Issue 24497, 26 July 1941, Page 8
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178WOMEN’S HOSIERY Southland Times, Issue 24497, 26 July 1941, Page 8
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