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machines thru credit from Bank And 1946 will buy singer machines if credit approved from Semdrang; a Singer assembling plant in Slduhayo, E Java - price 65,000 Rp each - takes up to 5 years before a girl skilled enough to make finer pieces - some of embs pieces also sewn up in form of shifts & men's shirts & dashikis - are also table cloths, chair pillows - has never exported - will need to add another workroom as already crowded - complained that unhealthy competition (pessaingan yang [[?]] [[?]]) between producers in that they steal trained workers & designs from each other - some of finer pieces now on display at [[?]] in Semang - cloth averages about Rp 2000 a meter georgette & other fine fabrics harder to handle than cotton - sell about 300,000 Rp worth of embroidery a month make about 25% profit on fine work, 10% on rougher & estimate averages out about 20% ((60,000 Rp a mo.)) - no of fine pieces can turn out per no. still very limited - are 4 other machines which workers have taken home, but use for ready-to-wear; say can't control the quality of embroidery if allow workers to that at home Jepara [[margin]] Wed Oct 18 [[margin]] Head of Dinas Jepara Pak Hasim, -v ery smooth & seems to be most qualified of all the Dinas people we've seen; this probably because Jepara wood carving getting a lot of attention from central govn, now & is a big new service center financed not by provincial govn (as other service centers) but by central in Jak. - 4 adm & 3 techn. staff - 3 motorcycles