VISIT OF MR VINES

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30100, 6 April 1963, Page 7

VISIT OF MR VINES

The 46-year-old Australian, Mr W. J. Vines, who is managing director of the International Wool Secretariat, which works for the 180,000 woolgrowers of New Zealand, Australia and South Africa who provide more than 60 per cent, of the wool entering world trade, will speak at a public meeting in the Jellicoe Hall in Christchurch at 3 p.m. on Monday. The responsibility of the secretariat that he directs is to ensure that in spite of changing fashions and trading conditions and in spite of the competition of substitute fibres wool will continue to enjoy a steadily continuing demand at a price that is economic to the producer. “Mr Vines directs the promotion of wool in some 20 countries and New Zealand woolgrowers are now contributing, through the Wool Board, more than £lm a year to this important work,” said the chairman of the Wool Board. Mr J. Acland, recently. “He is visiting this country primarily to report

to them on wool’s situation in the main retail markets of the world and on the work and plans of the secretariat. However the prospects for wool are of concern to all sections of the community so public meetings are being held to which everyone is invited,” he said. A pupil first at a small bush school attended by only 12 children, Mr Vines at the age of 11 won a scholarship to Haileybury College, Melbourne, and later won the accountants’ gold medal for Australia and qualified as an associate of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries in England and as a licensed company auditor. In 1955 he went to London as managing director of the Berger group with responsibility for operations in 30 subsidiaries and 17 factories throughout the world and following amalgamation he became joint managing director of the new company of Berger, Jenson and Nicholson, Ltd., in 1960.