MARMALADE AND JUTE
Dundee, where the British Association mot. is associated in the popular mind with the inanul'acture of marmalade. an industry which employs 7.000 people, says the "Manchester Guardian." But more important is the jute industry, of which Dundee enjoys a vh-tual monopoly. It has multiplied enormously since the opening of the Chapelshade works in 1832. and now finds work for about 35.000 people. This is one of the wonders of modern industry, for all the raw material has to be brought thousands of miles across the seas, while the finished articles—bagging. tarpaulin, yarns, hessian cloth, twilled sacking to mention] only a few of the products of the busy mills—have to be distributed in markets scattered all over the globe. During the Great War every available machine and operative was set on the mass production of sandbags. They were ordered by Whitehall by the million, and Dundee was able to dispatch them al the rate of 150,000.000 a I'ormight.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 November 1939, Page 7
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160MARMALADE AND JUTE Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 November 1939, Page 7
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