BRITISH POTTERY TRADE

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15977, 20 November 1919, Page 10

BRITISH POTTERY TRADE

BEATEN AT HOME ifY GERMANS

LONDON, September 13

The British pottery tiado has taken alarm at the appearance of German china in the stores of the pottery district, at prices which manufacturing potters declare they cannot approach, Even in this city, - with its important pottery industry, German ware is being offered below the post of local manufacture.

These German goods, it is stated, are being represented as of Dutch manufacture, hut a member of the English China Manufacturers’ Association said that no such china was manufactured in Holland.

Tii-e p ric-e of the German goods is fully SO. per cent, under the cost' of local production, and this in London, the real home of English china. “If it is true, as has often been said/’ said a pottery manufacturer, “that Germany has been accumulating vast stocks of manufactured, goods during the war, it is possible she has been passing them over the Dutch border in exchange for butter and cheese. In that case the prospect of wholesale ‘dumping’ from that quarter, added to the certainty of severe direct competition in home and overseas markets, will create a serious situation for the English china manufacturer.’’