TWO NEW WOOLLEN MILLS.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 June 1920, Page 5

TWO NEW WOOLLEN MILLS.

WANGANUI AND WATRARAPA. Addressing the annual conference of the Wellington Provincial Farmers' Union, the president, Mr. G. L. Marshall, referred to the apparent disparity batween the cost of raw wool and the pries of manufactured clothing. "It seems that the time has come when we should try to manufacture more of our primary products here, instead of exporting them all in the raw state," he said. "Surely the time has come when we should make all the blankets and cloth we require here instead of paying freight both ways and paying a high price for imported woollen goods. Many of na wonder how it is that we have to pay about thirteen guinea? for a suit of clothes when we know that we get only about ten shillings for the wool required to make the suit. How is the difference made up? It seems that an enormous profit must be made in some of. the processes that the wool goes through. A company is heing .floated in Wanganui to manufacture woollen goods, and 1 believe another company is starting in the Wairarapa, so that evidently the public is waking up to the fact that is is time we moved in tins direction."