Satisfactory Growth Since Outbreak of War London, Jan. 7.
'The Committee on Industry and 'Trade yesterday heard Dr. Armstrong, representing the Association of British Chemical Manufacturers, who gave evidence as a witness 1 regard to the British dyestuffs me! dustry, Tle showed that Britain was' now substantially independent German dyes. No vat dyer, we made here in 1914 but to-day one firm alone offered 23 compounds in' this series and the number was Larger for the industry as a whole.
Imports of these colours for the months to June, 1925, where only some 93,000 1b. in weight, while home production was mote than 500,000 1b., excluding indigo. To-day home production of all cal-ours during this period was evoe 13_ times the amount imported. British Wireless through Reuter
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.