WOOL BETTERMENT

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 51, 24 November 1930, Page 11

WOOL BETTERMENT

Mr. Forbes Inquires VISIT TO LEEDS MILLS “Scenery” for Growers By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright London, November 21. Interviewed at Leeds, Mr. Forbes said that the sheepfarmers of New Zealand were fully aware of the criticisms made in Yorkshire, and he had come to find out the exact position, and then report to the woolgrowers. “The Yorkshire research workers tell us that there are weaknesses in our wool,” he said. “As business men it is our job to make an article to suit the English manufacturers.” He did not favour the fixation of prices. “We have not found anything to beat,” he said, “the present methods of market control, namely, the law of supply and demand.” At the factory, where 50 per cent, of the wool used in making garments was New Zealand, he said that though there was some fine scenery in New Zealand, he thought that the woolgrower could not see finer scenery than the girls making garments of New Zealand wool. Had Mr. Forbes been an earlier riser he would have got a suit of clathes free. He arrived at the Montague Burton Mills, Leeds, at 9.40 a.m., and the director told him that if he had been ten minutes earlier a suit cou.d have been made to measure and presented to him by 11 o’clock, when he was due to leave. He added that 50 per cent, of the wools used in the firm’s mills came from New Zealand. Subsequently Mr. Forbes Inspected by invitation the research department of the British Woollens and Worsted Manufacturers’ Association at Headingley.