WOOL SALES TO JAPAN
Increase In N.Z. Share (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, July 28. Japan’s imports of wool topped two million bales for the first time during the last year. Mr S. Abe, president of the Japan Wool Spinners’ Association, announced in Osaka, the Wool Board said today. “Wool has always been considered a prestige fibre in Japan and no less than 80 per cent of all wool imported was consumed internally,” Mr Abe said. The assistance and co-oper-ation the industry received from the International Wool Secretariat played a major role in the promotion of wool sales, said Mr Abe. The Woolmark campaign had been so successful that more than 80 per cent of consumers polled had recognised the symbol. Statistics released by the wool commission recently show that New Zealand doubled her exports of wool to Japan during the year ended June 30. In 1964-65, Japan took 103,629 bales of greasy, slipe and scoured wool. This year she purchased 208,352 bales.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31125, 30 July 1966, Page 21
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