DEARER CLOTHES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 13978, 10 May 1913, Page 7

DEARER CLOTHES.

SYDNEY MERCHANT'S VIEWS. “The cost of clothes, in fact everythin}! wade from wool, will increase within the next year or so at a rate that will almost bar the use of woollen goods in this country,” said Air T. J. C. Withrow, an Australian soft goods merchant. who has just returned to Sydney from a tour of the world. "The abolition of the duty on wool imported into the I nited States will cause it ’* be said. “The duty is bound m Is- abolished ; the whole feeling of the country is against the tariff, and when that happens, it will take the entire wool crop of the world to satisfy Uncle Sam’s ap;jetite. In the Northern States, owing to the harsh winters, woollen clothes are indispensable, and as a result of the heavy duty that has been imposed upon raw wool for years past, cloth made from the golden fleece lias been beyond the means of most. Now that the duty is going the demand tor our staple product will result in growers sending their clips to America. What will be the natural corollary? Why, there will be a shortage for our own use, anil, of course, an increase in the price. “While in America I studied the cost of clothes. A suit that would cost about £5 5s here would be .50 dollars, or about £lO in New York. In fact, unless a suit is slop-made, and lias a considerable portion of cotton in its make-up, it cannot be obtained in any of the American shops under £7 10s or £B. It is only the pcoph* in comfortable circumstances who can afford it. But the average. Yan-k-e is a LT '.it believer in dress, and with .■’O per i-enc off the cost—that is what the abolition of the dutv on wool means —woollen clothes will lie worn to a r.rejaor extent than -it present, with the ••■■Milt that there will he a shortage of the m;:t’T:al in countries where it is iroia. 1. 1 course, there is a remedy, the iieundticn of an export tax. hut that is mu likely to come about.”

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