N.Z. WOOL SALES TO JAPAN
Increased Business Predicted
(New Zealand Press Association) HASTINGS, July 4.
The chairman of the New Zealand Wool Board (Mr H. J. Wardell) who recently returned from overseas, said today he considered Japan was aiming at a common market similar to that proposed in Europe.
Japan’s population was increasing at a rate of one million a year, and she had to extend her market, he said. Seventy per cent, of wool being used in Japan was 64’s and over, but he forecast that the demand for the strongerfibred wools might increase in the future.
It was encouraging to see the Japanese wearing Western-style clothes almost exclusively for street wear.
The International Wool Secretariat had managed a quite revolutionary introduction of wool into kimonos, which were usually all silk, he added. In the past, Japanese manufacturers had been forced under a barter agreement with the Argentine, to take a large proportion of wool from that source. Now this agreement had been reduced they probably would turn more to New Zealand wools, said Mr Wardell.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28321, 5 July 1957, Page 12
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