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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 16 August 1911, Page 3

Japan Is now beooa:in£ an important buyer of New Zealand wool, and Mr T. Kitamura, a representative of Japanese mills, has attended several of the recent Wellington sales of crutchings. Tho wool is required for rough fabrics, such as army blankets, horse-cloths, and coarse khaki cloths for military purposes. For this kind of wool very <roo-.l prices ■vrjrepaid by tho buyers repiosentiug Japanese houses. The Japanese have, for soiue year* past beeu consistent purchasers of tops make; iv Sydney Theso tops are turned to account at the big mills in Osaka and other man ufacturing centres in Japan ? are used for used for finer fabrics than orutch-> ings are required for. It is bnliovcd to bo but a uifit.cr of time ero Japan will be a competitor for the finer New Zealand wools. China i« already a buyer at the Sydney and Brisbane sales, Lut not at present to any great extent. A few small orders have been executed by Australia for China, but Japan is widening the character, of her trade. This season the Japanese paid in Sydney the record price for nitrino fleece wool, rarnely, lG|d per lb.

The French trade unionist, M. Yvetot, in the course of a speech in Berlin, declared that the institutions of Prussia were more liberal-minded than these of France. %( Here iv this country." said M. Yvetot. "you can speak quite unrestrained, while in France, Russian and English socialists are exiled before they are able fo> speak asalV"