COLOSSAL ORDER

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 222, 7 October 1940, Page 8

COLOSSAL ORDER

♦ — •• 22,000,000 YARDS OF CAMBRICS JAVA BUYS FROM LANCASHIRE, An order for 22,000,000 yards of cambrics lias conic to Lancashire from Java as the result of the political changes in Holland and the Dutch East Indies. The total value of the order is £600,000 and it represents one of the largest, single transactions ever put through by Lancashire firms. It will be carried out by 40 firms of manufacturers and a large number of spinners of medium American yarns. The size-of the order exceeds the whole requirements of the United Kingdom for 1938, yet it represents only .075 of Lancashire's ''all out" capacity for cotton goods production which- could indeed dispose of it in two days or three. The order will be handled by 14, ~ 500 workers without interfering in the slightest with Government orders for the fighting forces. All interests concerned in the execution of the. order—manufacturers, spinners, bleachers and merchantswill be registered as the First Ex-"j port Syndicate under the Cotton Board set up by the Board of Trade. 1 Negotiations are already in progress for further Java trade with Lancashire, the chief lines being bleached and printed.cloths and fancies. The 22,000,000 yards of' cabric are being manufactured for shipment to Java between September and December.