WHAT ABOUT WOOL?

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3679, 24 March 1932, Page 4

WHAT ABOUT WOOL?

Is wool being held up by some subtle and unseen influence It is little short of tnarvo'il.ons that this staple product, a world eonimodity in raw materal is not being absorbe year by year. Instead tin demand has gone back year by year, until today el- 1 ■ .sln-cd i’ll New Zealand does not pay back the cost of shearing and bringing in. to tile- salerooms. Thislug been going on lor so, long that in Podding, district and' along this Coast there are pastoraliSts wlioi have , Air clips stored up. They are lucky to be able to- afford to hold on against day of recovery. lint what about the farmers who- are- forced to so 1 1 nr a f sg? This cannot go on, especially under a suspicion that our paste,ralists are being, exploited from, the. other end of the world.. It looks as if the Go-verjiment should give mi,, tlinnight t,> th.e position of veil. f-i'-metliing should be done to stubili e and regulate prices and control output. Something in the nature of the H.A.W.R.A. of Aus- ‘ i alia. f)ai-rv produce, frozen meats and even fruit are under ron-ti'.J I, sards, why nut wool?