RUGS AND BLANKETS

Taranaki Daily News, 10 April 1928, Page 9

RUGS AND BLANKETS

GREAT DEMAND IN UNITED STATES. HUGE ORDERS SENT TO EUROPE. (ißy Wire—Special Reporter.) Auckland, Last Night. Mr. Albert Russell, a director of Messrs. James J. Niven and Co., Ltd., of Wellington, returned to Auckland this morning by the Maunganui from Sydney after a fifteen months’ tour abroad. “In America things are terrifically prosperous and everybody seems to have money to burn,” said Mr. Russell. “I believe that if New Zealand manufacturers of rugs and blankets co-operated in placing these woollen goods on the American markets our mills would be working 24 hours of the day,” added Mr. Russell. “The demand for rugs and blankets is enormous. For instance, one large hotel in Chicago recently gave an order to Czecho Slovakia for 6000 pairs of blankets.” Speaking of Vienna the traveller remarked that Austria was one of the European countries which was vindictive. Austria had not forgotten the war and, particularly in Vienna, the residents were greatlv anti-British. The country that was making great strides was Germany. Mr. Russell noticed almost every town of the Fatherland .as undergoing a spring cleaning. While he was there buildings were being cleaned and painted a»d roads were being repaired.