COTTON INDUSTRY
Australia's cotton-spinning and weaving Industo is fully employed. Prior t-o the beginning of war out Put ol cotton textiles in the Commonwealth was much less than 10 per cent oi usual requirements, and. though greit expansion has since taken place in capacity of plan's, output is still only a fraction of demand. The scarcity of cotton goods is illustrated in clothes rationing 1 , a cotton garment costing more coupons than a similar one made of wool. Defence crders rapidly took precedence in mill outp.it. and the Government granted facilities, by tariff bounty and otherwise, for stepping-ap production of canvas and cuck. Though profits during war-time are a most indefinite quantity. Bradford cotton and some others in the trade should io well afterwards.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 178, 30 July 1942, Page 3
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124COTTON INDUSTRY Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 178, 30 July 1942, Page 3
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