LINEN THREAD
MILITARY USE ONLY NO CIVILIAN SUPPLY BLOW TO MANY INTERESTS (By Telegraph.—Special to Times) NEW PLYMOUTH, Thursday “The sale of linen thread owing to the necessities of the war is being restricted to the manufacture of army clothing and boots and certain heavy industries. There is not a sufficient quantity to enable any allocation for the civil clothing or tailoring trade and the requirements for these trades or domestic purposes will have to be filled by cotton substitutes.” This was the answer received today by a New Plymouth firm of importers to an inquiry of Dominion agents for a renewal of supplies of these goods. The restrictions, it is stated by those concerned, are a serious blow not only to retail traders in threads, but to the clothing manufacturing business, especially the tailoring trade, boot makers and all leather goods manufacturers and sail and tent makers, to whom cotton substitutes are of little use and in some instances quite unsuitable.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21217, 13 September 1940, Page 7
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162LINEN THREAD Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21217, 13 September 1940, Page 7
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