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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