BRITISH EFFORTS TO SUPPLY N.Z.

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 13, 11 October 1943, Page 4

BRITISH EFFORTS TO SUPPLY N.Z.

The provision of sheets and pillow cases is a problem in New Zealand, but the position appears even more serious in Britain. The publicity committee of the United Kingdom Manufacturers’ and New Zealand Representatives’ Association has drawn attention to a recent statement from Britain to the effect that the Cotton Board holds out little prospect of immediate improvement in the supply of sheets and pillow cases, the main difficulty being the release of suitable yarn. Replies to the British Drapers’ Chamber of Trade by 300 members showed that at the end of March the average vjalue of their sheets and sheetings was £6 and Ol pillow cases £l/10/-. . Imports of woven cotton piece goods from the United Kingdom into New Zealand for the six months ended June, 1942, and June, 1943, were £931,100 and £1,061,115 respectively, states the committee. These included Government imports but the comparison indicated selfdenial in the United Kingdom to provide this market. All this tvas under the stress of war conditions, with the workers under severe food and clothing rationing and having to do civil emergency and Homo Guard duties after their working hours. Sue!) fine efforts to meet New Zealand’s requirements under war conditions justified the best efforts of New Zealand to buy everything possible from the United Kingdom after the war just as it was getting everything possible today.