WOOL CONTROL

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 151, 30 June 1925, Page 5

WOOL CONTROL

THEHIGGtNS PROPOSAL I',

NETC ZEALAND'S OPINIONS.

(USITED PRISS ASSOCIATION—COPYttIOHI.)

STEDNEY, 30th June!

Messrs. Bernard Tripp and .W".H.'*Nicholson, ths New Zealand pastoralists* delegates, hare reformed from the - Melbourne Wool Conference, aud -will sail for New Zealand hy the 'Maunganui on Friday. la the meantime they ". will discusa the position with . New - South Wales pastor&tists, and "upon ttieir-— return yrSl discnes matters ,-with„., .the...

New Zealand Sheep Owners'. Federation and the Wool Committee.

Interviewed concerning Sir John Hiegins's schema, the delegates -were "disinclined to comment e£s representatives at the New Zealand wool growers until they had placed the position before the institutions they represented. Espresso mg their purely individual views," they said the experience of meat -control in New Zealand showed that there, wasnothing to fear from the issue of,. „ex-. port licenses, .which had worked''well in tne Dominion. The question- involved no insuperable difficulties. Wool-, growers in Australia would be well-ad-' vised to consider the advisability ot forming some such organisation &s had' be.gn. proposed, on sound business lines. .Failing some scheme being evolved as a result, of the conference, the matter would be automatically removed from/ the condition of sound business to that of political action," ~ which was not' wanted. They stressed the fact that such a scheme ' would be specially beneficial to small sheep owners, and' emphasised the fact that control of ths" export of meat from ,New Zealand had kept prices stable over a. whole year on a level line which was close to the highest prices offered. The effect of export control was the stabilisation o) prices and of land values, sheep values" and the finances of the Government.