SOUTH ISLAND WOOL GROUP

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29193, 2 May 1960, Page 16

SOUTH ISLAND WOOL GROUP

Lincoln College Conference The tenth annual conference of the South Island Wool Association will be held at Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln, on May 12 and 13. It is expected that about 100 members, mainly from wool stores in Christchurch, Timaru, Dunedin and Invercargill, and stock and station agency firms all over the South Island will attend the two-day meetings.

The conference will open with a visit to the college research farm, with cheep research projects being explained by Dr. I. E. Coop, head of the animal husbandry department, and Mr V. R. Clark, a technical officer in the department. In the afternoon there will be a sheep demonstration and wool judging on the sheep, a count and yield competition and repeatability test. Conference members will hear a series of lectures on the second and final day of the meeting. Mr G. G. Thompson, acting head of the veterinary department, will discuss the first stages of conversion of grass to wool, Mr L. Morrison will speak about modern control of sheep parasites, Mr A. P. Mulcock, lecturer in the microbiology department, will deal with fungus tip, Professor B. P. Philpott, professor of agricultuhal economics, will lecture on the wool market, and Dr. I. E. B. Fraser, of the college wool department, will speak about the reclamation and uses of fleece by-products. The annual general meeting will follow. The chairman at this year’s conference will be Mr Duncan Stewart, of the wool department of the National Mortgage and Agency Company and H. Matson and Company, Christchurch.