PROSPECTS FOR WOOL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 229, 26 August 1938, Page 6

PROSPECTS FOR WOOL.

FUTURE ASSURED WITH PROPER ORGANISATION. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Aug. 25. “If the present organsation is supported, wool will hold its own high place as a textile fibre, despite the’ tremendous increase in the output of staple fibre. I am firmly of the opinion, however, that every effort must be made for the proper, organisation of the wool industry and the doing away with considerable waste and loss, especially at the producers’ end,” said Mr H. M. Christie, M.P. for Waipawa, and chairman of the New Zealand Wool Publicity and Reseai-ch Committee, on his return to-night after attending the conference of the Internationale Wool Textile Organisation and meetings of its executive conimittec in. London.

The conference, Mr Christie; stated, was attended by representatives of practically every European country and of Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. It was considered to have been most successful. The amount of work which members, of the International Wool Secretariat Tiad accomplished in the short time since their appointment was surprising. Australia was ably represented upon it by Dr Clpnies Ross, South Africa bv Mr F. du Plessis. and New Zealand by Mr F: S. Arthur, whose work had already won high praise. The purpose of the organisation was to further the wool industry in ,the widest sense.