NEW ZEALAND RUGS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 723, 26 December 1933, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND RUGS

EXCELLENT MAlRKET TO BiE OBTAINED IN U.S.A. " HASTINGS MAN'S EXPEMENCE. Hastings, Saturday. The opinion that the woollen tra-velling-rugs made in New Zealand mills would find ready sale in the United States of America was ex- ! pressed to the Herald yesterday by a | Hastings resident who recently visit- j ed the States. During his travels in America, he ; said, he had carried with him a New j Zealand rug of good quality, and it j had been' the suibject of much admiration and of some envy. A retailer j in a large way of business had re- i marked on the fineness of its quality and its general .attractiveness, and had said what a pity it was that such rugs were not obtainable in the United States. The Americans, said the retailer, .would pay almost any price for so fine an article. It was a much better article than was available in American shops and in the retailer's opinion there was an almost unlimited market for rugs of that kind. Similar remarks, said the speaker, were made by the head of the Los Angeles headquarters of the largest firm to retail outfitters on the Pacific Coast. In marketing rugs of such quality, said the retailer, the price was a matter of almost no account. People would buy them for their quality, and would not let the' price deter them. He added that in America there was a large buying public to whoim price was a matter of no concern. If thos;e people wanted a thing they would have it, whatever the cost might he. As an instance of the lavishness with which the American will spend money, our informant related that he had seen a shaving:-brush priced at a hundred dollars. He asked how it could be possible that any article of that kind could have such a value, and it wa.s explained to him that every hair in that brush was carefully selected as a perf.ect type .of perfeet hair for shaving-hrushes. Moreover, the hairs had not been put in wholesale together and then trimmed to the shape of the brush-end, but had been put in one by one and fitted so that when the brush was finished the end was properly selfshaped.