GERMAN GOODS.

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16781, 26 April 1926, Page 5

GERMAN GOODS.

FLOOD LOCAL MARKET. The Now Zealand market is being flooded with all manner of Germanmade goods, which are finding a ready market for the reason that British goods arc unable to compete with them, though favoured by a preferential tariff (says a Wellington paper). The drapers' shops are now slocking large quantics of fabrics, cotton gloves and artificial.silk stockings, and trimmings, all of which have their origin in Germany. The gloves, which are tastefully made, arc plainly stamped "Made in ■■ Germany." There is no camouflage. German pianos are beginning to find favour once more; German gramophones, German records, pottery, china, clocks, watches, and fancy goods of all kinds may be. found in almost every shop. One shopkeeper said that one might as well be out, of business as to refuse to stock the great variety of Germanmade goods now being offered to the trade.

In some cities businesses have been established to sell German, Austrian, and Czccho-Slovakian poods, to the exclusion of British and American, the tariff being no obstacle to their success.

Mr H. Burcher, the J. C. Williamson producer, who has just returned from England, stales . that Germany threatens seriously to be America's hip rival in the film industry. The German pictures of to-day, he says, are being done on a magnificent scale, and their artistry is unquestioned.