DAY BY DAY.

Waikato Times, Volume 90, Issue 14029, 4 April 1919, Page 4

DAY BY DAY.

It is evident that the British authorities are determined that Britain's the valuable coal tar dye Dye industry shall no longer Industry, he a monopoly of Germany, as it was before the war. Up to August, 1914, the great German dye works, most elaborately staffed and built up with all the improvements that scieuce could suggest.

supplied the greater part of the world's coal tar dyes, and practically had a monopoly of this valuable trade as far as Britain was concerned, thanks to the latter country's free trade system. After hostilities broke out, British scientists set to work to discover the German secrets, and as a result huge dye industries have already ben built up. These are to be protected rigorously against foreign competition, both in the Empire and Britain itself. The Federal Minister of Customs, for example (reports the Melbourne Age), announced that advice had been received from the Imperial [authorities that, 1 except, under license; the importation "into the - 'United Kingdom of coal tar tfy'es had been prohibited! The actual-'lis.t of the,'articles thus dealt with comprises all derivatives of coal tar, capable' ; bf being ilsCd as dyesftuffs or of being modified, or further ■ manufactured into dyestu'ffs, and all direct cotton colours, colour bases, and numerous other colours. Australia has already forbidden the importation into the Commonwealth of other than British dyes without special permission, in accordance with the policy of Imperial preference. The action of the Imperial authorities shows their determination to protect and develop an industry developed out of war-time needs which will undoubtedly be of immense value to the country.