Wool Marketing
Sir, —An advertisement in Saturday’s issue by, or on behalf of, the London wool brokers appeals to “those farmers wishing to help the New Zealand economy” to ship their wool to London for sale. As I see it, if all New Zealand wool was shipped to London for sale it would (1) put the New Zealand brokers and their highly-trained staffs and expensive equipment out of business, (2) compel the local mills to go to London for their wool, (3) make no additional contribution whatever to the New Zealand economy. The advertisement also infers that selling wool in New Zealand has been the cause of “the low price of wool this last season,” which is scurrilous nonsense. In case I should be accused of grinding an axe I may as well state that tny only direct interest in this matter is an extremely small shareholding in a wool-broking firm that has done more for the New Zealand economy than any firm of London brokers has ever done or ever will do.— Yours, etc., BAA. November 22, 1965.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30916, 24 November 1965, Page 20
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179Wool Marketing Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30916, 24 November 1965, Page 20
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