A GERMAN "ERROR."

Shannon News, 4 January 1924, Page 3

A GERMAN "ERROR."

YARD MEASURES 87 INCHES.

TRIED TO DISCREDIT .BRITAIN

| An Auckland business, iirni has received a letter lroui a Leeds mauuiaejturiiig House wliicli 'reveals one ol tire slim tricks by which the Tieuton is endeavouring to get liiinseli hack into tne worid markets on, a lavoui'uniu basis. This is what one might" call watering the Held ior tiie future crop. Tile letLer states that ja client ol tire hnn recently complained that some goods ueu.v ored by them w.eae snort 'iiti vviatn. By good luck toe client Happened to be m England, and it was (ascertained irom aim tnat lie was using a sleel tape measure made in (jcrmaiiy, and which proved on testing to ne one incli wrong to the yaru, tnat is to hay, the nueas.ure measured 37 inches, Tiie measure was stamp with /tiio metre on one side and witu tihe yard on tiie other. The metre measure was. correct, hut the yard snowed ,yi- a«d a Iraclian" centimetres to the yarn. "This," .states the letter, --can .hardly he anything hut deliberate on tiie part Ql the Germans, 'me London Chamber oi .Commerce, rs taking this wai-ier up very seriously, and niiorm us mat they have received similar complaints irom Japan as to .short lengtiis and widths in .woollens.'' Tne .same Leeds limn had also received complaints irom South America recently on the subject ol measurmeut, which puzzled them until this German steel tape trick caute to light, it is. expected that .similar complaints will conie in irom ail over the world, as obviously ii this German measure nas been distributed world-wide, buyers ol goods will -be. complaining that English deliveries, of piece goods are short in width. '