SECURITY OF WOOL

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 49, 26 August 1938, Page 15

SECURITY OF WOOL

MR. CHRISTIE'S VIEWS

THE SECRETARIAT'S WORK

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, August 25.

"If the present organisation is supported, wool will hold its own high place as a textile fibre, despite the tremendous increase in the output of staple fibre. lam firmly of opinion, however, that every effort must be made for the proper organisation of the wool industry and to do away with considerable waste and loss, especially at the producer's end," said Mr. H. M. Christie, M.P. for Waipawa and chairman of the New Zealand Wool Publicity and Research Committee, on his return by the Rangitane tonight after attending a conference of the International Wool and Textile Organisation and meetings of its executive committee in London. The conference, Mr. Christie said, was attended by representatives of almost every European country and of Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. It was considered to have been most successful. The amount of work which members of the International Wool Secretariat had accomplished in the short time since their appointment was surprising. Australia was ably represented upon it by Dr. Clunies Ross, South Africa by Mr F. Dv Plessis, and New Zealand by Mr. F. S. Arthur, whose work had already won high praise. The purpose of the organisation was to further the wool industry in the widest sense.