“KNITTING IS CRAZE IN DOMINION NOW.”

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 146, 22 June 1931, Page 7

“KNITTING IS CRAZE IN DOMINION NOW.”

CHANCE FOR PUSHING SALE OF LOCAL WOOLS.

“ Everybody is knitting now, right through the country. It is a craze, and offers an. opportunity of pushing the sale of New Zealand wools,” stated Mrs A. I. Fraer at a meeting of the Citizens’ Unemplojrment Committee today. She said that a locally-made three-ply wool selling at 8d could compete with anything imported. These remarks were made during a discussion on the question of encouraging the public to buy New Zealandmade goods. Mrs Fraer said that women were the chief spenders as far as clothing was concerned, but the girls had not been educated to ask for the locally-made article. School teachers were in some cases advising the senior scholars concerning the means of getting the best value in spending, and more education along those lines was needed. As far as women’s underwear was concerned, the Canterbury product excelled anything else in the world. “The Unemployment Board’s problem to-day is how to get skilled tradesmen back into their ordinary work,” stated Mr W. E. Leadley, in furnishing the following details of the occupations of the 44,482 men registered as out of work:—Building trades 4768, engineering trades 1894, other skilled tradesmen 4755, drivers 1701, storemen and packers 600, labourers and quarry workers 20,441, farm hands 2294, clerks, salesmen, storemen, etc., 2095, hotel and restaurant workers 794. The occupations of the remainder were not specified.