TEXTILE INDUSTRY
IMPORTANT EXPORT SIDE SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE ' FOR MAY Another British industry with a very important export side, the textile industry, has been able to report a substantial increase for May. . Cotton manufacturers raised the production of cloth by ten per cent, during the month, if allowance is made for the Whitsun holidays, this means that the rate of output is now above the previous peak level recorded for last October and November. Comparison with June, 1946 (which was also affected by Whitsun) shows that the average output of single cotton yarn in May of this year was 11 per cent., and in the case of cloth eight per cent, higher than a year ago. ,
On the woollen side, too, encouraging progress is reported. Production of tops was approximately £4,750,000. This quantity not only exceeds the level achieved before the fuel crisis last winter; it was also higher than in any period since the early part of the war.
An improvement in the labour position is also reported. The manpower shortage has seriously retarded a lot of production in Britain’s textile mills since the end of the war, but the situation is now improving. Further expansion in the number of workers entering wool textiles is bringing the total force slowly but steadily towards the target of 200,000 set for that side of the industry.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 57, 23 July 1947, Page 5
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224TEXTILE INDUSTRY Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 57, 23 July 1947, Page 5
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