Call To Improve Quality Of Wool

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32213, 4 February 1970, Page 1

Call To Improve Quality Of Wool

(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, February 3. Mixed and poor-style wools were likely to be discounted by manufacturers in the future, the chairman of the New Zealand Wool Board (Sir John Acland) said today.

The trend in the wool market during the 1970 s would reward the farmer who gave attention to the breeding and presentation of his wool, he said. “The best advice we have is that wool is inevitably going to become something of a luxury fibre as synthetic prices fall still further and their output increases,” he said. “The International Wool Secretariat is trying to expand the markets for felts and other fabrics for which inferior wools are suitable, but there is a limit to these.” Sir John Acland said there was a large, unsatisfied demand for lamb, and farmers were rightly going all-out to supply it “But it is not inevitable that wool should suffer,” ha said. “It is possible in most parts of New Zealand to get the extra lamb and improve wool quality at the same time. “Wool is. usually about a third of the farm income so looking after it is a sensible insurance policy. Its markets are wide and they are not

subject to political interference. “In the 1970 s I believe the textile market will be more setUed and we shall see the benefits of the wool promotion and technical work of recent years.”