Lighter Woolpack Recommended
(P.A.I CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. With the cooperation of the Woollen Mill Owners' Association, the Wool Board, which held its monthly meeting in Christchurch this week, will sponsor displays of woollen materials at centimes throughout the Dominion. After discussing reports on woolpacks, the board decided to recommend the adoption of a woolpack lighter by not more than 10 per cent than the present, the new pack to be branded with an identification mark. The board reserved for further consideration a proposal for a sire-testing scheme submitted >by Mr G. R. Macdonald and Mr O. T. Evans on behalf of the Corriedale Sheep Society. The board also decided to secure further information regarding the reported dispersal of a number of stud flocks. After visiting Australia at the request of the Australian Wool Board to report on the world wool situation. Dr Edgar 11. Booth, chairman of the International Wool Secretariat, London, arrives at Auckland by air on April 21 as the guest of the New Zealand Wool Board.
After a meeting of woolgrowers at Hastings, Hamilton and Wellington, he leaves at tho end of the month for the United States.
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Northern Advocate, 3 April 1947, Page 5
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