FARMERS' UNION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 3 May 1923, Page 5

FARMERS' UNION.

WOOL MARKETING SCHEME. (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, May 2. Mr J. Grimsdale Anderson (Pelorus Sound) submitted to the Dominion executive of the Farmers' Union to-night an outline of a scheme for a wool marketing control board of not less than five members, to be elected by the Farmers' Union and the Sheepowners' i Association, or the whole body of • sheepowners. I The board, ho urged, should engage two or three of the best experts in the Home wool trade to act as selling agents in Britain and fix the minimum price of each quality for sale, which price to be the minimum parity for the corresponding Dominion sales. The board should appoint its own wool elassers in the Dominion, big flock owners being allowed the option of having their clips classified on tfee station by elassers duly authorised by the board, all smaller clips to be classed in the brokers' stores, and each broker to have a subsidiary wool pool for his own clients. The expense of the board, salaries, etc., should be financed by a, small poundage rate on all wool sold, the grower only paying for the actual handling and classing. After discussion an outline of the scheme was referred as a result to the coming Dominion conference of the union