HUGE INDUSTRY
LANCASHIRE COTTON GOODS OUTPUT.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright, LONDON, August 13.
Striking facts regarding Lancashire’s production of cotton cloth arc revealed in the statistics for 1937. The total output of piece-goods made for sale exceeded 3,000,00 metres. The yardage of the products of Lancashire looms for the year was sufficient to provide a belt of cloth approximately 40in wide to go 80 times round the world, and, in addition, the cloth made on commission would provide another belt not quote so wide sufficient to encircle the earth once again. The production for the year was sufficient to provide every person on earth with two yards of cloth. The gross value of the output was £84.500.090. and the cost of the raw materia] for the year exceeded £59.000,000.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 August 1939, Page 6
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