British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume II - Page 849

CHAPTER XIX.
be borne in mind that the figures of "actual supplies" by local production and imports are based on estimates, final data not being available :-

Table 7.

Actual supplies Relation
between
Normal Locally Imported supplies
Products theoretical produced goods Total to tbeor-
requirements goods requirements
Ions tons tons (-
percentages)
I
Cotton goods I 5,828 I 3,308 820 4,128 70.85%
I
Woollen goods ! 716 394 193 587 55%
Woollen goods,
second-hand 182 - 935 335 229%
Silk and rayon i
I
goods 989 I 217 109 326 94.72% Total

7,757

3,919

1,457 . 5,3761 78.3%

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Linen goods, etc.

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This table shows that the estimated normal requirements of cotton goods were covered during the year 1945 as to 70%, woollen requirements as to 55%, silk and rayon as to 35%.

70. The fields of textile consumption where demand was most satisfactorily covered by supplies as regards quantities were knitted products and hosiery which, even before the war, had been to a great extent provided by local production. The position was relatively well in hand where local production could be expanded from an existing nucleus, or initiated with available machinery as in the case of cotton and wool spinning and weaving. In fact, supplies of cotton piecegoods and ladies' woollens of medium type were sufficient to meet essential demands whilst there was a marked shortage of cloth for men's suits and also to a considerable degree in cheap textiles such as grey sheetings. Supplies were most deficient in rayon and linen.

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