WOOL INDUSTRY

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 96, 20 October 1934, Page 10

WOOL INDUSTRY

BILL IN ABEYANCE

PURPOSE MISUNDERSTOOD

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

(2HBISTCHUBCH, This Day.

Legislation aiming at the establishment of organised research to help the wool industry would remain in abeyance until such time as tho industry itself realised that some action was necessary, said the Prime Minister (the Bt. Hon. G. W. Forbes) today.

'"There is a strong opinion that action is necessary," said Mr. Forbes, '' the difference being centred on the details." There seemed to be a great objection that it was just another instance of the Government assuming control or interfering. Nothing could have been further from the case. Tho Bill was intended to give tho industry itself complete control, the Government's only functions being the raising of. money and the facilitating of the work. The whole of the administration would be in the hands of the sheepowners themselves.

tilings clone at onco. It likes uniforms and parados and spectacular goings-on. Tho drab business of recording a vote once in several years is iiot attractive. It wants action. Youth is a fiery patriot or a fierce revolutionary. Tho slow, plodding pace of Parliament has no appeal. This is why you find so many young men and women among the Hods and the Blacks. They want to get things done;1 to change things, to improve the world. But their ideas are poles- apart.