A GERMAN "ERROR."

Otaki Mail, 7 January 1924, Page 3

A GERMAN "ERROR."

j YAM) MEASURES 67 INCHES. J TRIED To."■. DISCREDIT BRITAIN. An./Auckland business Ami lias received a letter from a Leeds manufacturing- house which reveals one of the slim trick/s hy which the Teuton is endeavouring to get himself back into the world , markets on a, favourable basis. This is what one might call watering the field for the future crop. The letter state's that a. client of the firm recently complained that some 218 s per cwt (Is Hid perlto.). Unsaltgoods delivered by them were short in width. By. good luck tWg client happened* to be insErigland, and it was ascertained from him that he was using a . s-ieel tape . measure made to Germany, and which proved on testing to be one inch wrong to the yard, that is to e?ay, the measure measured 37 inches. The measure was stamped wsh Alio metre on one side and with ! the yard on the otlier. The metre j measure was correct, but the yard showed 94 and a fraction centimetres to the yard. "This," states the. letter, "can hardly bo anything but de-1 liberate on the part Qf the Germans, i The Loudon Chamber of Commerce, is I taking this matter up very seriously, and inform us that tinfiy have received similar complaints from Japan as to short lengths and widths in woollens.." The same Leeds firm had also received complaints from South America recently on the, subject of measuru»ent, which puzzled them until this German steel tape trick Came to light. It is expected that similar complaints will coniie in from all over the world, as obviously if this German measure has been distributed world-wide, buyers Df (goods will bo complaining thatEnglish deliveries, of piece goods are short in width.