DANISH TEXTILE FIRM PLANS TO OPEN SMALL FACTORY IN N.Z.

Wanganui Chronicle, 30 March 1948, Page 4

DANISH TEXTILE FIRM PLANS TO OPEN SMALL FACTORY IN N.Z.

p - A -> Auckland, March 29. Danish textile industry js eager to establish a market in New Zealand and, if possible, open mills, said Mr. Ernest Bremer, and Mr. Juul Johansen, representing two Danish textile mills, who arrived in a chartered Skymaster from Sydney today. “We will be in New Zealand about three weeks to confer with Government officials with a view to obtaining licences to export cloths to the Dominion,” said Mr. Johansen. Denmark, he added, imported a large quantity of raw material f rom New Zealand and textile production in his country had almost reached pre-war level. Denmark, however, had to export at least half of its production Io maintain industry on an economic basis.

So far New Zealand had not imported Danish cloths, the bulk of the Dominion’s requirements being met by Britain and Australia. If the talks were satisfactory they hoped to establish an export trade to the extent of £lOO,OOO sterling annually; also to establish a small factory in New Zealand staffed by about 200 workers.

Their negotiations in Australia were unsuccessful. Mr. Bremer said, Australian products as far afield as cloth for her own use. He had seen Australian products a far afield as India and the Malay States.