HANDLING OF WOOL

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 25021, 1 November 1946, Page 9

HANDLING OF WOOL

AUSTRALIAN CLERKS’ BAN TENTATIVE AGREEMENT . REACHED —x—(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) ( Rec- 11 P.m.) SYDNEY. October 31. A tentative agreement in the wool clerks’ dispute was reached by the parties today at a compulsory conS r ?, nce Presided over by Mr J. C. Welbourn, Assistant Registrar in the Abntration Court. The terms of the agreement, which are subject to ratification by the executives of the National Woolselling Brokers’ Association and the Clerks’ Union, are not disclosed. , Meanwhile the representatives have promised that the ban will remain on Dalgety and Company’s wool ih New South Wales and Brisbane, and on Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Company’s wool ih New South Wales ports only.

The brokers will consider the tentative agreement on Monday, when the ban may be lifted immediately. In Newcastle yesterday tally clerks refused to take delivery of 10,000 bales for the steamer Queen Adelaide because Dalgety and Company’s agents for the -ship refused to supply documentary evfdence that the wool was not the property of Dalgety’s or of the Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Company. The union secretary said that until the company supplied documentary evidence no wool would be handled by the clerks or waterside workers.