GERMAN TEXTILE INDUSTRY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3598, 9 October 1920, Page 2

GERMAN TEXTILE INDUSTRY.

A BOOK IN TRADE. Berlin, October 7. TInT German textile industry is booming. Despite labour troubles, Tc lie liigli costs of production, tlic.. ooists cf procuu..ion, the balance-sheets i).' tixt.l- companies show turnovers oxcm-cing pre-war years and-declaring dividends of hO to 00 per cent. Newspapers pro est that the figures reveal scandalous profiteering. LAND FOR SOLDIERS. The following areas of land are available for selection by ballot by discharged soldiers Taranaki. —Twenty-seven sections, Parihaka Settlement, exempt from rent for one year and two years. Twelve sections, Taitaina and Ratapiko Settlements. Auckland.-—Seven sections, Pou-a-Kani Block (Taupo district), 1397 acres to '2872 acres at less than £1 per aero. Four sections Hurukai S.D., and twenty-one sections in Ongarue S.D., mostly bush land, at about £2 per acre. Four sections National endowment in Raglan, Opotiki, and Ohinemuri Counties. Four sections Tauranga County, Katikati S-D. Plans may be seen at the office of the Taihape and District Returned Soldiers’ Association after 3 p.m. each day.