Acland Defends His Visit
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) CANBERRA, Nov. 5. The chairman of the New Zealand Wool Board Mr J. Acland, denied today that he was insulting the intelligence of Australian woolgrowers by “trying to ram his opinions down their throats.”
He said he would not take the advice of the Sydney “Daily Telegraph” which, in a full-page editorial today, said “Go home Mr Acland—and attend to. your own affairs.”
Mr W. J. Vines, into the wool referendum campaign. “I have come here at the request of the ‘yes committee’,” Mr Acland said. “All I am doing is to explain how the New Zealand scheme functions. “I have not been speaking against one side or the other. “I am going home tomorrow night—but only because I could not get a booking on Sunday.” Mr Acland said he had been given a good hearing and was asked good questions at meetings at Orange, Moree and Tamworth. He will speak in Canberra tonight and at Albury tomorrow.
The “Daily Telegraph,” which has been campaigning
strongly against the wool reserve price scheme, bitterly attacked what it described the “indecent staged intrusion” of Mr Acland and the managing director of the International Wool Secretariat,
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30901, 6 November 1965, Page 15
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