MANY USES
COTTON AS WAR MATERIAL. A cotton operative who recently went to have a look round an exhibition of cotton goods in Manchester told overseas listeners to the B.B.C’s. Radio Newsreel what a surprise she’d had. Although she started to work in a cotton mill at the age of twelve, she’d no idea so many war goods were made of cotton. “When the war started,” she said, “I thought I’d like to go back to the mill to do my bit, but at that time I didn’t think of my sort of work as a front-line job. That came afterwards, and' today I saw the uniforms, the cotton diving-suits, the special kits for tank crews and all the different kinds of clothing made of cotton that our fighting boys wear. And if you’d told me that those dinghies that have saved the lives of so many air crews were made of rubberised cotton—well, I’d never have believed you if I hadn’t seen them with my own eyes and felt them with my fingers.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 December 1942, Page 4
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174MANY USES Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 December 1942, Page 4
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