MADE IN GERMANY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 9, 2 March 1899, Page 20

MADE IN GERMANY.

A (iiiKAT deal yet remains to be done for Irish industries, writes an t-xchange. Not very long ago i:?,<io<) suits of clothes arrived in Dabl n from (iermany, and the material in all the garments is woven from German pent. Peat has been applied to many useful purposes, but certainiy human ingenuity has surpassed itself in making the product ot the bogs available for the wearing of textile fabrics. Yet this has not merely buen done in Germany, but by the very irony of fate a trade in the finished article has been established in the capital city ot Ireland — the land of bogs. Those who have examined the Irish and German peat declare that the former is much more suitable for making into cloth than the latter, possessing more fibre, and being altogether of better quality. Yet the enterprise of the German has succeeded with the inferior article, while the use of the Irish product has not even reached the stage of experiment. Surely here is a matter to which our Irish capitalists might turn their attention. A vast deal of Irish money has been lost in foolish tyre speculations, which, if it had been used to develop some Irish indus ry, might have resulted in advantage, while at the same time producing great national benefits. It might be well worth the while of some of our friends to make at least an investigation into the possibilities of Irish peat being utilised for the purposes to which the Germans have successfully applied it.