WOOL MARKETING.
MORE FREQUENT SALES. PROPOSAL TO PRIME MINISTER. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) GISBORNE, this day. Returning once again to the question of the marketing of wool, Mr. F. S. Bowen, chairman of the Poverty Bay Provincial Expcutive of the Farmers' Union, stated that this was the most important problem to be faced by the farmers of New Zealand. He held that they should hoid ivocl sales over the whole year instead of in a period of only about four months. With the short season the Dominion was simply throwing the wool at the buyers. If they could hold wool sales over the whole twelve months they would get 3d or 4d per pound more than they were securing at present, Mr. Bowen declared. He proposed that the union should write direct to the Prime Minister suggesting that sales be held over the whole year instead of within a few months. Mr. J. C. Field said that they had to advertise wool to increase its popularity. The chairman declared that this scheme would be the best that wool could receive. "If catalogues of sales were kept down to 60,000 or 70,000 bales they would have plenty of interest in it," he said.
The chairman was authorised to write to the Prime Minister setting forth his ideas on the disposal of the New Zealand •wool clip.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 225, 23 September 1929, Page 4
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