WOOL MARKETING.
AUSTRALIAN CONFERENCE. _ -- SYDNEY, March 17. The graziers’ annual conference affirmed the principle of extending the wool-selling season and offering smaller daily catalogues. The conference also adopted the recommendation of a joint meeting of the Graziers’ Federal Council and the Australian Woolgrowers’ Council for a compulsory levy for a publicity and research campaign, the levy to be not more than Is per bale. The Commonwealth Government is to be asked to arrange for collection in the form of excise. Mr J. P. Abbott, in the course of his presidential address, commented on factors imperilling the future of wool, which were international restrictions on trade, the growth of substitutes such as woolstra, ignorance of the qualities and uses of wool, and growers’ apathy. He pointed out that the volume' of production of artificial fibre from wood pulp, quite apart from rayon, had been multiplied by ten in five scliort years.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 92, 18 March 1936, Page 9
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150WOOL MARKETING. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 92, 18 March 1936, Page 9
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