WOOL PUBLICITY AND RESEARCH

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22111, 5 June 1937, Page 14

WOOL PUBLICITY AND RESEARCH

. 4 Appointment of N.Z. Representative MR F. S. ARTHUR* OF DUNEDIN [THE PRESS special Service.] WELLINGTON, June 4. Secretariat in London nounced by the chairman Com . New ZMland.Wool |^ t mittee. Mr H. VL Chnstje. the conclusion of parliacommittee this evening at * ment House. The con.rn.ttte, w decision was u " anl '"° J. ” s j„r the ally to deal with apph canaiiy . interview the can position and to e consideradidates selected for nnai Arthur, who is to take up U» new duties as soon ««. manager of the wool, P duce export aducate ? a S . Otago Bops' High School, which he attended from 191 he was a studentfrom 1919 to passing egam>nat‘ons 1 ed as ancy. Mr Arthur wa Zealand go . a member of the JN 1922. He ciety of Accounta nalcetv and Cornjoined the firm of Dalgety ana pany. Lidoff n attended from 1921 to ne «* Dunedin 1S^r Tech > nic a l -^^g^b^truction in" He made a special study of wool from the selling and valuing fide and also fmm the point of breeding ana manufacture. He “ as wra the Otago Agricultural and Pastoral s ° cl s“y Cup for the most points in open competition for wool judging. Mr Arthur’s early years in Dalgety and Company were spent in various departments, including the merchandise, grain and seeds, and accountancy departments. In 1922 he joined the firm’s wool department and assumed control of the wool skins, and produce export department in 1924. In 1926 and 1927 he acted as wool auctioneer. He was the Dunedin delegate to the conference in Wellington on the wool-scouring subsidy scheme. He is on the committee of the Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Society. Through family associations he is a director of J. J. Arthur, Ltd., retail clothiers, of Dunedin.