IN KIDDERMINSTER
DOMINION PRIME MINISTERS BOTH MADE FREEMEN. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, December 1. Still beset by cold and foggy weather, Mr Bruce and Mr Coates visited Birmingham. They went over Nettlefold’s screw works, where Joseph Chamberlain made his fortune. , Afterwards they went to Kidderimster, and saw at Brinton’s factories carpets ordered for Canberra, some of them to designs submitted from Australia. To say the least, the designs chosen or forwarded surprised everyone. They compared unfavourably with the more tasteful designs in stock. The party was shown samples designed by tho Prince Consort, as well as patterns favoured in Australia 30 or 40 years ago. To modern eyes they are all equally ghastly. Later Mr Bruce and Mr Coates were entertained at luncheon, and became Kidderminster’s only living Freemen. Both were surprised to learn that the carpet industry was one of the few to suffer little from the post-war depression. ' The Exeter Council has decided to present the city’s freedom to Mr Bruce. He will cut the first sod of the new south-west University.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12620, 3 December 1926, Page 11
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176IN KIDDERMINSTER New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12620, 3 December 1926, Page 11
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