AUSTRALIAN WOOL
THE MANUFACTURE OF SOFT GOODS. There were in 1923-1924 47 woollen and tweed mills in Australia, an increase of seven over the previous year. The number of employees totalled 7532, an increase of 604 on 1922-1923. Wages paid, amounted to £1,043,298 compared with £991,801 in the previous year. There were produced in 1924 4,940,627 yards of tweed and cloth, 7,617,299 yards of flannel, and 1,206,005 'blankets, rugs, and shawls. Notwithstanding the establishment of 13 new mills during the previous four years, the yardage of tweed and, cloth fell from 6,350,499 in 1920-1921 to 4,940,627
in 1923-1924. However, flannel and blankets, rugs and> shawls have increased. The industry is mainly centred in Victoria, where 4914 hands are engaged out of a total of 7532 in Australia.
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Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1777, 1 July 1926, Page 2
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127AUSTRALIAN WOOL Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1777, 1 July 1926, Page 2
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