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Taihape Daily Times, 20 June 1918, Page 3

DRAPERY! EXCELLENT Which Cannot be Repeated. The following will give some indication of the Cotton Market, which aprosent look anything but bright:— REPORT FROM OUR LONDON BUYERS on March ISth, 1918: Re Cotton —The outlook is distinctly _ worse, and it is quite impossible to see any distance ahead, but everything is to greater and still greater scarcity of both cotton and manufactured goods as the months come along. The tonnage question is still the great factor, and from all we can gather the amount available for the import of cotton during the summer months is likely to be considerably less,and the recent action of the Liverrpool Cotton Association in prohibiting transactions in cotton futures further ahead than July is very significant, and is is regarded by many as an intimation that the Government can make no promise in regard to ships later than that mouth, and that the Association wish to discourage business which may be quite impossible to dearer and scarcer goods. Should the shipping problem be solved or eased our difficulties would not be at an end, -.’,s the new outlook for the new cotton now being planted, is far from good, and it is much too early to speak with any certainty. The scarcity of fertilisers and labour in the Cotton States coupled with the pressure of the American Government on the planters to cultivate more food stuffs instead of cotton, is making those who take a long view very uneasy to the next crop, and when it is remembered that it will have to last us until November, 1919, with the possibilities of peace in the meantime and alb that moans in re-clothing Continent of Europe, it is easy to see that there is every reason for anxiety. On the whole, taking a broad and long view, we can see very little prospect of cheaper goods, and in spite of the present high prices, should the next crop be no larger than last, very consideralbc possibilities in the other direction. r ,! WHITE TABLE DAMASK in exclusive designs, 1/11, 2/11, 3/6, 3/11 4/6 5/6 > 5/11 and 6/11 per yard_ UNBLEACHED TABLE DAMASK, 2/3, 2/9, 3/3, 3/6 j and 4/6 per yard WHITE DAMASK TABLE CLOTHS j 56 x 56 j S/ll each; 63 x 63, 12/6 each; 63 x 80, 15/6; 70 x 90, 21/ each SERVIETTES, 3/3, 4/11, 5/6, 6/11, 7/6, 10/6 12/6 to IS/ per half dozen TRAY CLOTHS plain linen < hemstitched borders, 36x 36, 9/6 D’OYLEYS, plain linen, hemstitched lOd, 1/, 1/2 and 1/S TRAY CLOTHS drawn thread, 1/9, 1/11, 202, 2/11,’3/6 5/9, 6/6, S/6 to 12/6 DUCHESS SETS plain linen, hemstitched borders, 7/11 per set. Taihape

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