HAPPY "FIVE TOWNS"
TEADE BOOHS; NO UNEMPLOYED. The British Pottery towns are enjoying a boom in trade the like of which has not been known for many years. For iivo years Germany and Austria. who were the- biggest competitors, have boon shut out from the principal markets of the world. During those five years circumstances prevented much overseas trade being done, but sinco the armistice was signed trado lias been steadily increasing. America and Canada aro the biggost buyers. "Before the war," said a prominent manufacturer, "we had to depend on the Germans for transfers, which are -used for decorative purposes. But the exigencies (-' the war have tauaht us much, and • are no longer dependent on German- 'jr anything. "' years ago wo never used to wor about makimr cheap ornamental ware such as the Germans dumped in this country. To-day we are turning them out as fast as we can." "The Potteries" is the one bright spot of Britain where unemployment does not exist.
A great fire in the timber and sawmill-; at Mnimnxi Islniio', near Archnmrel. has cnnsfsl (Imi'ukp p-stiin/itod at fifl.OMl.OM roubles (,£0,000.000 at )iro-war mtes). The iiifiuraiioa , falls chiefly ou Britigli componiea^
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 73, 19 December 1919, Page 8
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195HAPPY "FIVE TOWNS" Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 73, 19 December 1919, Page 8
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