WHAT THE WAR HAS TAUGHT US.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 27 September 1917, Page 2

WHAT THE WAR HAS TAUGHT US.

The new British dyes are giving satisfaction both to retailers and purchers. Their prices are a little higher than those of foreign manufacture, but this is largely due to other conditions ■- imposed by the war. In one West, End draper's shop, a London correspondent says there are hundreds of shelves full of brightly and beautifully .tinted fabrics " all coloured with British dyestuffs. Customers are said to be delighted with the tints and well satisfied with the quality, When war broke out we were dependent on German dyes for our khaki and naval uniforms, .and our textile industries, employing hundreds of thousands of operatives, were threatened with collapse. The war has at least taught us that we can make our own dyes in Britain as well and as cheaply as. the enemy made them, for vi;; before. -,^ -~^-<-\^