WOOL RESEARCH
OBJECTION TO USE OF GROWERS’ MONEY (Bee. 1 p.m.) CANBERRA, This Day. Opposition members strongly attacked a Government proposal to use £7,000,000 profit from the wartime wool disposals scheme for the Wool Research, Publicity and Stabilisation Fund. - •„ T . , -r During the debate on the Wool industry Fund Bill, Mr Anthony (Country Party) said that the money belonged to the woolgrowers and not to the Federal Government, which was being generous with somebody else’s money; An amendment that the money be invested in Australian consolidated stocks was lost by 36 to 20. Mr J. J. Dedman said that the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research needed £453,000 this year for wool and textile research. The Bill passed all stages. ■
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 255, 9 August 1946, Page 4
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