Wanted: A Wool Board

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 283, 26 August 1944, Page 6

Wanted: A Wool Board

Sir,' —Mr. Christie was appointed chairman of the Wool Council by the Government, and not elected by the woolgrowers. But the woolgrowers have been paying him a salary for eight years,-plus the cost of his trips abroad, and they are surely entitled to courteous answers to simple questions. It is time that the wool position was placed frankly before a properly constituted Wool Board for a calm and enlarged consideration, ranging far above personal and partisan politics. It should be clearly understood that the proposed trip to London has nothing to do with the extension of the wool contract with the Imperial Government. In fact, after perusing the agenda to be discussed in London, I was of the opinion that the space occupied by a delegate on his journey could be used to better advantage by shipping our hungry cousins some good beefsteak. Because I moved that Mr. Christie’s trip be not sanctioned, but should be discussed by the Electoral College on August 30, we have this refusal to answer simple questions. , ... , „ . The chairman of the Wool Council offered on his own volition On April 19 to arrange a meeting between Mr. Nash and the Wool Council'within seven days after the return of Mr. Nash, but he now states that he has never even seen him. # Mr. Christie also undertook the same day to forward the resolutions of the Electoral College to the Minister of Agriculture, and four months later we were surprised to find from the Minister that the resolutions had never been received Is there any wonder that there is a. mighty surge of’resentment against politics as usual in the wool world?. The farming community does not underrate the post-war wool accumulation and is prepared to do its part in orderly planning for the day when the restoration of stricken Europe will once more balance demand and supply. And the first step is surely the mobilization of our best men and brains in the formation of a Wool Board. It’s up to you, Mr. Prime Minister. —I am, etc. —L. 1. DANIELL. Masterton, August 2a.