AUSTRALIAN WOOL
RESEARCH AND PUBLICITY COUNCIL TO~~BE FORMED (10 a.m.) MELBOURNE. Nov. 2. The establishment of a wool consultative council within the Ministry of Post-War Reconstruction is included in the plans for encouraging wool research and publicity announced last night by the. Prime Minister, Mr. J. Curtin. It is proposed to spend about £600,000 yearly, which is to be raised by a tax of 2s a bale on wool and a contribution of 2s a bale bv the Government. Mr. Curtin said the Government was convinced that wool research and publicity was a matter of great urgency if the threat of alternative materials was to be withstood. It was intended that research work should be divided into three heads, first) primary production, secondly, the wool textile industry, and thirdly, the general national and international economics of the wool industry and of competing and complementary fibres.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21551, 2 November 1944, Page 6
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