A DUMPING GROUND
FREE TRADE ENGLAND Received June 21, 9.10 p.m. LONDON, June 20. The Evening News says: “Within a radius 100 yards of St. Paul’s, it is possible to buy cotton socks for 4d, shirts for Is, women’s jumpers for Is 3d, sports shoes for Is, glass tumblers for 6d a dozen, soap for 4d per pound amt dressed fur at less cost than raw furs. “London is fast becoming the wold’s centre of dumped goods. There is incredible, cheapness, making it impossible for British and Dominions’ manufacturers to compete. Hundreds and thousands of Englishmen and women unknowingly wear Japanese underclothing, cat from Japanese table-cloths, wear Czecho-Slovakian shoes, and cat Russian sweets sold wholesale at prices lower than the manufacturers pay for sugar. “The brightest spot is the wholesale boycott of Russian butter, estimated at 10,000 casks stored in warehouses. ”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 145, 22 June 1931, Page 8
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141A DUMPING GROUND Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 145, 22 June 1931, Page 8
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