Romney Wool Recommended for N.Z.

Grey River Argus, 19 May 1947, Page 2

Romney Wool Recommended for N.Z.

LONDON, May 14. Dr. Edgar Booth, chairman of the International Wool Secretariat, after visiting Australia, New Zealand and the United States, said in London today that anything impeding the free market movement of wool to the consumer was bad for wool interests everywhere. Dr. Booth predicted a bigger, differential in favour of the finer quality wools.. He said the more Australia kept in the Merino class the more she would be able to keep ahead of the rest of the world. South Africa had been able to produce 95 per cent. Merino and Australia had dropped back to 77 per cent. Merino. Australian and South African wools were of the same general type and South African was very much in demand in competition with Australian, particularly in the United States. Britain, he said, was facing keen post-war competition and needed to employ skilled salesmanship to sell an increased quantity of her firstclass woollens abroad. She was up against quality and competition. Dr. Booth said America would buy as much Merino-type wool as Australia could produce in the foreseeable future. The secretariat would like to see Japan buy the coarser types of wool. This would help particularly New Zealand.