§ Mr. WATTasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he has any statistics showing the number of lace machines that are at work, respectively, in Nottingham, and in Ayrshire, and in the Bridge-ton district of Glasgow, or showing the output of lace curtains in these various districts?
Mr. BUXTONI am not in a position to state the number of machines used in the lace industry, or to give particulars of the output of lace curtains for particular districts. As stated in Section 13 of the Preliminary Tables summarising the results of the Returns received under the Census of Production Act, 1906 (pages 11 and 12 and 43 and 44, Cd. 5,162), the output of lace curtains was as follows:—
The value of finished lace goods of all kinds, as returned by lace warehouses in England and Wales was £3,646,000, and in Scotland, nil; the value of curtains finished cannot be separated from this total.
England and Wales. Scotland. £ £ Cotton Lace Curtains and Piece-Goods made on Curtain Machines 664,000 … 762,000 Muslin Curtains and Piece Goods — … 166,000