WOOL INDUSTRIES FAIR

Otago Witness, Issue 4028, 26 May 1931, Page 34

WOOL INDUSTRIES FAIR

IMPERIAL ENTERPRISE (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, April 10. It is announced that 23 members of Parliament representing Yorkshire wool constituencies have issued a joint appeal to the public to support the efforts which are being made this year to stimulate the British wool industry through the medium of the Imperial Wool Industries Fair, which will take place at Bradford in July. The signatories, who include Sir John Simon and Mr H. B. Lees-Smith, president of the Board of Education, point out that more than 600 years ago every capital in Europe acknowledged the excellence of British cloth, and that at the fair there- Will be a pageant showing the progress of the industry since that period. The West Riding, they insist, still turns out the finest cloth in the world. They assert, moreover, that there is no dearth of new designs and new fabrics, and that manufacturers have never shown more enterprise and a keener desire to cater for changing demands. “We desire.” the appeal adds, “to bring before the manufacturer the vita] need of modern methods of bringing his goods to market, and would remind him of the amazing result, achieved in the face of supreme difficulties of the recent Cotton Textile fair at the White City, where in 12 days orders north more than £5,250,000 were booked. . . We desire, too, the support of the buying public. The fair will provide an unexampled opportunity foi every man and woman to see what British looms can produce.”