NOTHING LIKE RUBBER!

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2420, 27 March 1915, Page 14

NOTHING LIKE RUBBER!

. "How do we stand nationally for rubber goods?" was a question asked a leading Rubber'.'firm's manager during 'the' week. "My friend," returned; ,he, ' ! if wo-were as independent of the enemy countries in everything as wo are in rubber .war, the Empire .would be better off. Wo don't fear any foreign competition in any of tho lines we turn out. AVe liavo had them here, of course, and many people know those goods. When I say know those goods. I mean thsit now they- know them too well tobuy them when 'they, get -a sounder article made within the Empire. There is one thing that'the Germans could beat us at, and that was in the manufacture of. solid tires.. Strictly speaking they are hot rubber goods— tliey are a composition with an admixture of rubber, but other than that we can shako -the stick at the lot of. 'em. "It is good to know that there is a good solid British company manufacturing a wide variety of rubber goods in Australia, which has its advantages, as it cuts- out tho • 14,000 mile journey from England through widely varying temperatures, all of which has more or less effect on the rubber. "There are no better goods made in the world than British-made rubber goods. Take tires, hose of all description, conveyors, suction pipes, overcoats, gloves, packing, valves, sheet rubber, mats, tubing, washers, f,nd the whole range of rubber goods—all these goods are made successfully by Australian and British firms, who give better value for the money than foreign-made goods' of the same order. "People should remember, too, that it was a Britisher who first gave the world the -pneumatic tire, without which the pleasure .of cycling or motoring -would be practically nought. There is really no . end to the uses that Tubber is put to in these times, for the simple reason that there's nothing like rubber."-'- '