TEXTILE SUPPLY POSITION

Chronicle (Levin), 20 August 1947, Page 3

TEXTILE SUPPLY POSITION

Received Tuesdav, 7.0 p.m. LOXDON, Auguat 19. "I liave a t'eeling that the supply position for hoth wool and eotton textiJe.s may iinprove but any improvenient is likely to be preceded liy a verv serious gap in .supplies in tlie case of 111dividual manufacturers in New Zealand who are not adequatelv covered loy stock and deliveries at the end of tlns year and for the first three months of 191.x," said Jfr. ]). I. MacDonald, secretary of'lhe New Zealand Manufacturers' Federatinn, when coinmenting upon reports in th*, British press that New Zealand clothmg manufacturers were anxious about T-he supply situation as the result of cuts 111 J/jie textiies quotas. Mr. MaeDonald, who has spent six weeks since he r«rurned from Geneva ' where he represeared New Zealand as an ob'server at the I.T.O. conference, in visiting British manufacturers in all parts of the United Kingdom, said that although quotas were deflnitely 00111pletely removed in the case of cotton textiies, the positior with regard to vvoollens Was still not free and still not finalised. While New Zealand manufacturers had every reason to be apprehensive, he thought some of their aoxietv a little premature. It was essential tliat New Zealand manufacturers should keep in clpsest touch with United Kingdom suppliers to ensure that the details or their requirements were known well m advance. British suppliers were very anxious to lielp New Zealand customers and he thought that lf manufacturers in the Dominion eould get tlirough the next few months, tliere were prospects that the supply position would impfove throughout 194.3.