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“...161 367,310 8,500 27,100
Belgium 5,610 76,203 700 7,000
There was a moderate and regular demand throughout the year
for union cloth, army cloth, coatings, tweeds, suitings, &c., and arrivals
met with fairly prompt clearance. Towards the end of the year large
business was booked for goods to arrive in 1910.
In mousselines there was a trifling increase in yardage but a falling-
ofE in value. There are now altogether five moussehne factories in
Japan, and besides these there are also six woollen mills in addition
to a large one owned by the Japanese Government.
There are roughly 120,000 woollen and worsted spindles in Japan
and some 3,800 power looms.
The production of mousseline is gradually increasing and the
quality improving, and exports of this fabric last year amounted to
no less than 528,155 yards, worth 17,3002.
The consumption tax on woollen textiles is to be reduced from
April 1 of this year (1910), from 15 per cent, ad valorem to the 10 per
cent, rate which is in force for all...”
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“...68,471 42-62 27-14
Export of cotton tissues.—As with yarns so with piece-goods, the year
was distinctly an improvement on the preceding one as far as the export
trade is concerned, and there was a large increase in the shipments
of grey shirtings, drills, cotton crepes and imitation nankeens. The
home demand, however, was not as good as was expected, and in the
autumn many of the small weavers were in trouble. One of the largest
Japanese companies in this line, which has very fine spinning mills
and weaving sheds in Kyoto, experienced a particularly bad year.
The following table, taken-from the report of the Cotton Spinners'
and Manufacturers' Association, gives the latest particulars with
regard to the manufacture of cotton in Japan:—■...”
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“...000?. are to be spent in dredging part of the harbour
and in constructing a retaining wall and a small pier of 420 feet in
length. The anchorage will consist of a basin having an area of about
100 acres, half of which will have a depth of 28 feet and the other
half 22 feet. The approach to the basin will be by a channel 120
yards wide and 28 feet deep.
Yokkaichi is a thriving town, having good railway communi-
cations and being the outlet for the Nagoya district.
It possesses several large mills; the Miye Cotton Spinning and...”
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