Membership Of Wool Textile Group

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31768, 27 August 1968, Page 14

Membership Of Wool Textile Group

The New Zealand Woolbuyers’ Association has decided to take steps to form a national committee to apply for New Zealand to join the International Wool Textile Organisation.

The association made this decision at a meeting in Christchurch last evening on the recommendation of two members of its executive, Messrs D. K. McDonald and J. C. Marshall, who attended the annual meeting of the International Wool Textile Organisation in Montreux, Switzerland, at the end of May. The 1.W.T.0. has a membership of 25 countries but until the present New Zealand has not sought membership. Being closest to the industrial users of wool, the Woolbuyers’ Association has accepted reponsibility for forming the required national committee to seek New Zealand membership and will be contacting all eligible New Zealand groups to enlist their support. Membership of the 1.W.T.0. would enable all sections of the New Zealand wool trade to promote and advertise New Zealand more effectively as a user and producer of wool, the president of the New Zealand Woolbuyers' Association, Mr B. P. HilL said after the meeting. “We will be making a real contribution -in the international fields of merchanting, topmaking, spinning and

weaving New Zealand wools,” he said.

The Wool Board, on behalf of the woolgrower, had given its support to the International Wool Secretariat, an organisation allied to the 1.W.T.0., but the secretariat’s sole purpose was to develop promotional and research activities in the wool textile industry. “Our association has closely studied the activities of the I.W.S. and its effects in most markets,” said Mr Hill, “and it wholeheartedly supports and urges unrestricted continuation and extension of this vital work.”