WOOL STABILISATION

Hawera Star, Volume L, 20 June 1930, Page 9

WOOL STABILISATION

APPOINTMENT OF BOARD. CONFERENCE PROPOSALS. (By Telegraph— Press Association). WELLINGTON. June 19. The principle of the establishment of a- Wool Stabilisation Board' lias been affirmed) by the New Zealand Farmers’ Union and the Sheepowners’ Federation in conference. The following report of a combined meeting of a committee' of the Farmers’ Union and a. committee of the Sheepowners’ Federation was submitted to the Farmers’ Union conference. to-day. “At the meeting of the combined committee. Mr H. D. Acland presiding, Mr Acland explained that Australian sheepowners. were meeting in conference at Brisbane, and the results of their meeting were not vet available. Until this information came to hand nothing very definite could be done. He stated that’ at a meeting; of the Sheepowners’ Federation just held the following (resolution had been passed: That as the Australian conference, is now sitting we maintain the position agreed on at the previous, conference regarding wool control until Australia reaches a decision, and that should a scheme he adopted by Australia on a Federal basis with South Africa, this committee again meet with a view to our co-operation among lines adptable to New Zealand requirements.

“After discussion it was. unanimously decided that the sheepowners’. resolution lie adopted, with the deletion of the word ‘control,’ and the substitution of the word ‘stabilisation.’ It was.also unanimously decided that a joint committee be set up, comprising seven members of the New Zealand farmers’ Union and seven members of the Sheepowners’ Federation.

After the report had- 'been read 1 the president, Mr W. J. Poison, said thejoint committee of the Farmers’ Union and the. sheepowneus’ representatives had come to a unanimous decision in the matter, and the conference must either accept or reject the report. MT Bowen, one of the representatives on the committee, said the. Federal Council in New South Wales was meeting at the present time in Brisbane, and the Australian Wool GrowingCouncil was meeting next week. They had invited New Zealand to go in with them. They had already met the South African people at Capetown with their Minister of Agriculture, and they had agreed! that South Africa should join Australia in whatever plalis were made with regard to- the stabilisation of wool. Whatever they agreed it was necessary to do, New Zealand should: join in, and he therefore asked them to adopt the report. it was decided to cable to Brisbane straight away, and the report was unanimously adopted without discussion. The president said he had also had a brief conference with the sheepowneus on another matter and they had agreed that the remits on the most important matters passed by the conference should he jointly supported by the Farmers’ Union and the sheepowners when presented to the, Government. The remits passed on land taxation, derating, the Arbitration Court and unemployment would he submitted to the Government committee and woi;Jd be handed 'by the deputation to The Government.

The conference agreed to this proposal.