GERMAN TOYS RAID BRITAIN.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8417, 10 December 1920, Page 1 (Supplement)

GERMAN TOYS RAID BRITAIN.

The invasion of German toys threatens to smash the industry and destroy the livelihood of thousands of ex-Service men. Already this year £BOO,OOO has gone into the pockets of the Germans which should have gone to support a large number of the soldiers who fought the Germans. It began, Mr. W. B. Tattersall, of the Toy and Fancy Goods Trader, told a newspaper representative, with sundry merchants rushing over to Germany as soon as the Armistice was declared and buying up a great quantity of toys, very cheap, when the mark was worth half what it is now. Their example was followed by others, until now one firm alone has sold £200,000 worth of German toys, and has £60,000 worth in the cases on its shelves. British toys are superior in every respect and really just as cheap, but dumping and the rate of exchange enable the Germans to undersell us. “It is a shame,” added Mr Tattersall, “when an ex-Service man has invested £2O in tools, to see him threatened with disaster by German dumping.