BRUSHMAKING ROOM

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2630, 27 November 1915, Page 3

BRUSHMAKING ROOM

1 M®/LTOSffS &X ©f®.£& pOU THE millijjna <jf brashes placed by -the British and All&od Governments sintib tila «•«£ have s«fi. to » state of -ex-teaortliflW,? activity the kushwakhlg kl-adc. Sho -ABM 1 re((iJhionwttte ha*® icgja gmti that, in addftita to )«*$»»« ifee uado iuliy ; in Sihis., cwwrity, vast orders ■iui vo 'bc;;u. .ffeftit ic® o&ei' .pawiiciflai% Jjmevrai... w IsrashtoaidnK tiade ■ai3)-uot hfIpMML isswwar, tfeat tos Qer:iuru bris'h .t/aito mil captured for 'nilis .. "'Mcsi ;uaOMiSteciajH(Hs are months be™lMl 'Wltili ®efiia}iiy business in <<iciiUEjg.tSßtiiK> <cli.' tlfo?) larg® domando .made uijton .'Jiusni "by iJig) Cjovenuuent,'* the .priHojpsil ot tmii <j? tsna largest whole•sttlo tonsil sj&aiiHifijt&njing firms in the (tramway t&fc3 & Ka\r&" represen--IS'BaOMtay. alone would Ira wiiiajßHSi. rasssfm. for x-G'-'i being able to tilfe (Ssawaji trade, But it is -ifsr'.frron terajj ifo only one. ' "JHluj hr-usS* tnwfe in Germany is a UTry big and there are large Biaiifcfirs vlia make nothing olse but brnsh imacJunery. Before tho war theaw was. nos a single maker of br.im'h BwcKbMay in tlie country, and ilio-scairoity of nechauics since has not permitted tnacliinerj' manufacturers to nso to the occasion.

'Tho csieaper kinds of brushes will never bo able to be made at competitive prices in the United Kingdom owing to our not possessing the special incilitias—the fjiief bristle market is at Leipzig, and the Germans keep many kinds of bristles to themselves, which they use in making up brushes to compete with English manufacturers—and the high cost of labour. ; "Enormous quantities of Japanese brushes, which are even cheaper than the.-German ones, are coming into the market at the present moment, and it looks as if Japanese manufacturers are well, on the way towards capturing the trade lost to Germany by the war."