Referring to the consumption of matches in New Zealand alone, the report says that the total number of Packages" sold thera amounts. to 253,071 annually (each package con-{aining 144 boxes). The total price is £06873. Of the number of packages, Chinese matches only. oveupy 430, the value of which Is only £21, Japan, however. says the report, exported only 100 packages in 1033, Hour in 1993, the figure was increased to 52,000 packages.
In order to. Improve the Chinese match industry, the note suggested the following:
That the Wood for match sticks should be of botter quotity, that it should not be so. brittle and. that teach box should not contain more. than, 60° sticks; that "improvement ould be made in regard to. the chemicals used for manufacturing matches; and that the designs of the match box should be. improved Tu regard to the third. point, the. report suggested that Engi be employed.
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