BRISBANE WOOL VALUES FIRM

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26903, 2 December 1952, Page 9

BRISBANE WOOL VALUES FIRM

®ec. 12.15 a.m.) BRISBANE, Dec. 1. Prices at the opening Brisbane wool sale today were flrm on last week's Sydney closing rates. Competition was keen, the Continent. Japan and the United Kingdom being ‘be main buyers. The top price of 132 d for seven bales greasy Merino was the highest Price for greasy wool in Brisbane this season.

The voting was Christian Democrats .. 239 383 Socialists .. .. 141,855 Communists ~ 41,346 Democratic People’s Party .. 14,744 Representation in the new Parliament with the old Parliament in parenthesis will be:— Christian Democrats 29 (28). Socialists 17 (17). Communists 4 (2) Democratic People’s Party nil (3). Mr Hoffman said the result of the election gave a clear answer to those in Western Germany who thought the Saar population was not behind him. The French Ambassador to the Saar Gilbert Grandval) commented: The Germans gave fhe elections the character of a plebiscite and they have got their answer. “These elections give the French Foreign Minister (Mr Schuman) the opportunity of taking the initiative and reopening negotiations with Germany about the Saar problem.” A statement issued by representatives of prohibited German opposition parties signed. “The Oppressed

German Opposition Parties,” said that the results proved that the German opposition was not a small and unimportant minority. After the Roman Catholics, spoiled ballots formed the second largest group in the country.