WOOLLEN FACTORIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 777, 26 May 1881, Page 2

WOOLLEN FACTORIES.

: (From the Marlborough Times;)', .Our telegraphio o6lumns)reointly':con. tained the information that a'.woollen factory is about to be established in Mastertoil with a capital of £IO,OOO. On previous occasions we have alluded to the desirability of establishing this branch of industry here, but the subject is one which >ill baifr repQtUiqn. > MniHsrton, MM ! ah inlafid town, is in adrhewhat tjje "mm position as ;'l}lenWlh;''in Wat it.'U M chief'comtoerMcentK and agriouftuMldutripl, and the fact flat its such an industry should be esjabljshM jj) ■•'■ • their raMst 'affords'a stfbng"argqhj'e'n| jrr' favor of the ideas t we. expressed going time ago : upon ; ;thU , g'«bjeot'' ) m''-il<i! ! rtyai tion to Blenheim. As a mattor r, H [ :' fiotthis town .is far more advantagepuily,. situated for'aubh |i Jur'po)e than the which in this direction,} A Y,ery ; larj?ejamount of the raw material passes thfougK it every, year, the export last season, amounting to bales | it hag tw means of out'let by sea; and, lastly, as goim as the... coalfields at Picton are 'regulafjy worked. 'thiQpg't o|,fuel will be greatly cheapened ~-7* great' consideration to Ithe wotke'f s';6f * 'steammaohinery! ! In 'a ! disirict;.]{ke this where wool is the principal article produced the question very naturally arises whether we could not dp better export 1 itj as we now 'do,' "irf; its'mafflMA faptnred state, fresh from the sheep's back, And tjjis fjijeation induces another as to whether if wo'ujd nop be poialblefp .float a company in Marlboroug'h , ' v havinjj for its object' the manufacture of a raw material vjhjcljjs'.prodijped in'Jarge/guanV i tjties in tins! dutric),but '!can use [tin, itVfjjanufaotured state hrg to travel into Europßjanat.bacJwjrhgn ffl have again tp pbWpjfc .wifch f roight, ij}»ti')ifacturer'B,charges] anM'a4dryse|g! anp) profits added to its original cost i By working it up in the district the charges for freight and merchants! profits .would .be avoided, besides which the money paid : for manqfaoturing would be kept in the ' piasßi • .^rfift-.-,r ! rr?^ i '.'!i'*»!.'.'" M *.